 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.  The Essentials of Argumentation - Page 228de Elias J. MacEwan - 1898 - 412 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...last, ii., 594. 1 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...whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It U not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ougAi to do.... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me k not whether you have a right to render your people...interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tdk me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me, I onght to do. Is a politic act the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...Loit, ii., 594. 1 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...render your people miserable, but whether it is not year interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - 728 pages
...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...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 made from your want of right... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 346 pages
...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." In many of Burke's harangues, imagination occupies a great share, passion not a small one. The speech... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1895 - 368 pages
...and over again the necessity for making this important distinction. "The question with me," he says, "Is not whether you have a right to render your people...humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do. ... I do not enter into metaphysical details, I hate the very sound of them." To take a stand like... | |
 | William Smyth - 1854 - 554 pages
...as a necessary evil. I am resolved, sir, you see, to have nothing 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 - 1856 - 962 pages
...Lost, ii., 594. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. e@ 1 yoor interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a riyht to render your people miserable, but whether it is...politic act 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 450 pages
...that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a riyht to render your people miserable, but whether it is...but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I outflit to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that... | |
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