 | Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - 1884 - 360 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in this 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... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 344 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in this 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... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 346 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in this 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... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pagina’s
...fitted for them. That point nothing else can or ought to determine. . . . 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... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 354 pagina’s
...intend to be overwhelmed in this 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 - 1886 - 276 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.— Sfeech on Condl. with America. I was true to my old, standing, invariable principle, that all things... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 492 pagina’s
...hours. With the question of the right of taxation he would have nothing to do. ' It is not,' he said, ' what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.' The resolutions were negatived by 270 to 78. Burke's health seems to have suffered from his unavailing... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 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... | |
 | 1888 - 892 pagina’s
...ears : " The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, tut whether it is not your interest to make them happy....humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Nobody shall persuade me, where a whole people are concerned, that acts of lenity are not means of... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 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... | |
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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. 
