 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 sidor
...not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is not your 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 the worse ibr being a generous one ? Is... | |
 | 1776 - 632 sidor
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in fuch refpcftable company. The queiuoa with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miferable;...tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reafon, and jußice, tells me, I ought to do. Is a politic aft the work for being a generous one ? Is no conceffion... | |
 | 1782 - 434 sidor
...comply with the American fpirit as neceflary, or, if you pleafe, to , fubmit to it as a neceflary evil. It is not what a lawyer * tells me I may do, but what humanity, reafori, and juftice tells me I ought to do. Of what avail are titles and arms, when the reafon of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 sidor
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in fuch refpectable company. The queftion with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miferable...do; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, I ought .to do. Is a politic act the worfe for being a generous one ? Is no conceffion proper, but... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 sidor
...is, not whether you have a right to vender your people miserable; but whether it'is not your 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.' In many of Burke's speeches imagination occupies a great... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 sidor
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in fuch refpectable company. The queftion with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miferable...; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worfe for being a generous one ? Is no conceffion proper, but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 452 sidor
...refpectable company. The queftion with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miftrable ; but whether it is not your intereft to make them happy....; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worfe for being a generous one ? Is no conceffion proper, but... | |
 | charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - 570 sidor
...is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your 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 speech, tending to shew the necessity... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 sidor
...not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is not your 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 act the worse for being a generous one ?... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 sidor
...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 me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ?... | |
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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. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do. 
