 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
 | Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton - 1892 - 80 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 humanity,...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 294 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 humanity,...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... | |
 | 1892 - 734 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 1 Speech on Taxation, Payne's Select Works of Burke, Vol. I, p. 153-4. I ought to do."1 Burke would... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1893 - 324 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 humanity,...which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant?"2 1 Goldsmith : Retaliation. The poem is full of antitheses. See also Pope and Dryden. 2 Burke... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce - 1972 - 106 страници
...decisions under this cloud. So I would suggest to you, Mr. Chairman, that as Edmund Burke said, "It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." This committee ought to suggest to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, that the Hutt appointment... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1972 - 116 страници
...decisions under this cloud. So I would suggest to you, Mr. Chairman, that as Edmund Burke said, "It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." This committee ought to suggest to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, that the Hutt appointment... | |
 | 1888 - 966 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 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... | |
 | 1901 - 684 страници
...righl to render your people misérable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. Il is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me 1 ought to do. 1s a politic act thé worse for being a generous one! 1s no concession proper, but that... | |
 | 1976 - 136 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 humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.' He rightly insisted, that the ordinary commercial intercourse between Britain and the colonies fostered... | |
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