 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 Seiten
...whole have »unk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. lawyei tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a polilic... | |
 | William Shepherd - 1834 - 298 Seiten
...taxation, — I will not on this matter dtspute the point of right, but that of policy. ' The question is not whether you have a right to render your people...interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer may tell you, you may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice declare you ought to do.' Having thus... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 Seiten
...ir/io/e have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, thi.'j^h щ such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to ren'¡т your people miserable; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1835 - 474 Seiten
...whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." Notwithstanding this shyness of discussing a subject on the ground of abstract natural right, he acknowledges,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 Seiten
...whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived,...war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new Again : " I do not know, that the colonies have, in any general way, or in any cool hour, gone much... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 614 Seiten
...whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right...Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one 1 Is no concession proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant 1... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 Seiten
...whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. " The question with me is, not whether you have a right...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. la a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made... | |
 | William Smyth - 1840 - 514 Seiten
...as a necessary evil. I am resolved, sir, you see, to have notbun: to do with the right of taxation. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. But the colonies will go further, it will be said. Alas ! alas ! what will quiet these panic fears... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 Seiten
...overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether yon have a right to render your people miserable, but...do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I might to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper but that... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 Seiten
...Par. Lost, ii, 594. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right...to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells mo 1 may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse... | |
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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. 
