 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.  Speech on Conciliation with America - Страница 37по Edmund Burke - 1897 - 152 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 страници
...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...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 is made from... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 страници
...right to render your people miserable ; 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...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 is made from... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 страници
...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...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 is made from... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 568 страници
...right to render your people miserable ; but, whe" ther 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, that I ought to do. By your kl old mode of treating the colonies, they were well affected VOL. I. Z... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 страници
...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...keep what you grant? Or does it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise 505] 15 GEORGE III. Debate on Mr. Burkc's Resolutions the House... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 страници
...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...from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or docs it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise of an odious claim, because you have... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1816 - 834 страници
...miserable ; but, whether it is not your •' 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 old mode of treating the CX!VF " colonies, they were well affected to you,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 страници
...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...keep what you grant ? Or does it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise of an odious claim, because you have your evidence-room full of... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1820 - 502 страници
...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, that I ought to do. By your old mode of treating the colonies, they were well affected to you, M 3... | |
 | 1897 - 808 страници
...right to render your people 1 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. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring tranquillity, and the general character and situation... | |
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