 | David Hume - 1810 - 568 pagina’s
...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 - 578 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 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;...the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant? Or does it lessen the... | |
 | 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...worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or docs it lessen the... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1816 - 834 pagina’s
...trouble had prevailed. " I do not (said he) examine the abstract " question of right ; I do not inquire whether you have a right " to render your people miserable...interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer telle f me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell '' me, that I ought to do. By your... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 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...worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or does it lessen the... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1820 - 502 pagina’s
...trouble had prevailed. " I do not (said he) examine the abstract question of right ; I do not inquire whether you have a right to render your people miserable...; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your old mode of treating the colonies, they were well affected to you, M 3... | |
 | 1897 - 808 pagina’s
...majority. " The question with me," he said, " is not whether you have a right to render your people 1 miserable, but whether it is not your interest to...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring tranquillity, and the general character and situation... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 518 pagina’s
...are in the highest degree inexpedient, what way yet remains? No way is open but the third and laut; people miserable, but whether it is not your interest...me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tells ire I ought to do. Is a politic I act the worse for being a generous one? Is no ; concession... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 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,...to make them happy? It is not what a lawyer tells m I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tells 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. 
