 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable...interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1803 - 520 pagina’s
...that time, difcontent and trouble had prevailed. " I do not ffaid he) examine the abftract queftion of right; I do not inquire whether you have a right to render your people miferable; but, whether it is not your intereft to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me,... | |
 | charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - 570 pagina’s
...which you now lose to those by which you formerly gained.""—The question with me, said he, is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable,...interest to make them happy: it is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."—After a most elaborate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable...interest to make them happy. It is not} what a lawyer tells me, I may do ', but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable...interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable...; but whether it is not your interest to make them hap-' py. It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 568 pagina’s
...of the British constitution : our constitutional treatment of America had caused the benefits which we had derived from that country. Before 1763, we...have a right to render your people miserable ; but, whe" ther it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not " what a lawyer tells me, I may do... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1810 - 578 pagina’s
...of the British constitution : our constitutional treatment of America had caused the benefits which we had derived from that country. Before 1763, we...have a right to render your people miserable ; but, who " ther it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not " what a lawyer tells me, I may do;... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable;...interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politic act... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable...interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me, I ought to do. Is a politic act... | |
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The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. 
