 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.  a compendious view of universal history - الصفحة 193بواسطة charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...not 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...what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse ibr being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is... | |
 | 1782 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...not 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, I may do; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, I ought .to do. Is a politic act the worfe for being a generous one ?... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...question with me 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...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do.' In many of Burke's speeches imagination occupies a great share ; passion in not a few. This is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...not 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, I may do ; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worfe for being a generous one ?... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...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, I may do ; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your old mode of treating the colonies, i they... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...not 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...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...not 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...; 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 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...right; I do not inquire whether you " have a right to render your people miserable ; but, whe" ther it is not your interest to make them happy. It is...but what humanity, " reason, and justice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your kl old mode of treating the colonies, they were well affected VOL. I. Z... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...right; I do not inquire whether you " have a right to render your people miserable ; but, who " ther it is not your interest to make them happy. It is...what a lawyer tells me, I may do; but what humanity, " reasjon, and justice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your " old mode of treating the colonies, they... | |
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