 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 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... | |
 | 1833 - 930 pagina’s
...comply with the American spirit as neces. sary, or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do. Of what avail are titles and arms, 1832.] The Spirit of Anglo-Irish Legislation.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in snch respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable;...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." Again : " I do not know, that the colonies have, in any general way, or in any cool hour, gone much... | |
 | William Shepherd - 1834 - 298 pagina’s
...— 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 miserable,...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 - 648 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not eorge Dearborn lawyei tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a polilic... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pagina’s
...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 a hwyer tells me I mny do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." Again : "... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not ey proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or does it lessen the... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1835 - 474 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...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 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not n, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately...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 - 592 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 1 Or does it lessen the... | |
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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. 
