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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. "
Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775 - Sivu 39
tekijä(t) Edmund Burke - 1895 - 112 sivua
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 sivua
...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...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...

A View of the History of Great Britain: During the Administration of ..., Sivu 2

1782 - 434 sivua
...comply with the American fpirit as neceflary, or, if you pleafe, to , fubmit to it as a neceflary evil. It is not what a lawyer * tells me I may do, but what humanity, reafori, and juftice tells me I ought to do. Of what avail are titles and arms, when the reafon of...

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 sivua
...not whether you have a right to render your people miferable ; but whether it is not your intereft to make them happy? It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, I ought .to do. Is a politic act the worfe for being a generous one ?...

The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of His ..., Nide 1

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 sivua
...question with me is, not whether you have a right to vender your people miserable; but whether it'is not your interest to make them happy? It is not what...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do.' In many of Burke's speeches imagination occupies a great share ; passion in not a few. This is the...

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Nide 3

Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 sivua
...not whether you have a right to render your people miferable ; but whether it is not your intereft to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do ; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worfe for being a generous one ?...

The History of the Reign of George III.: To the Termination of the ..., Nide 2

Robert Bisset - 1803 - 520 sivua
...inquire whether you have a right to render your people miferable; but, whether it is not your intereft to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me, I may do ; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your old mode of treating the colonies, i they...

a compendious view of universal history

charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - 570 sivua
...which you now lose to those by which you formerly gained.""—The question with me, said he, is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable,...what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."—After a most elaborate speech, tending to shew the necessity of departing from that system of...

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Nide 2

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 sivua
...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...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...

Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Nide 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 sivua
...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...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...

Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Nide 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 sivua
...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...; 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 humanity, reason, and justice, tell...




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