 | 1888 - 892 sivua
...is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, tut 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,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 sivua
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 sivua
...not 5 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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 294 sivua
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is... | |
 | Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton - 1892 - 80 sivua
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is... | |
 | 1892 - 734 sivua
...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 1 Speech on Taxation, Payne's Select Works of Burke, Vol. I, p. 153-4. I... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1893 - 730 sivua
...rules." It is a question of expediency. "It is," cried Burke at thetimeof the American revolution, "not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." And to Burke's political philosophy we Americans of all... | |
 | William Edward Mead - 1894 - 298 sivua
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 392 sivua
...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 do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1894 - 120 sivua
...not whether you have a right to render your people mis• erable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but 35 what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a... | |
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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. 
