 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 Works of ... Edmund Burke - Sivu 75tekijä(t) Edmund Burke - 1803Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Samuel Bailey - 1835 - 474 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." Notwithstanding this shyness of discussing a subject on... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 sivua
...not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is not your interest ne alone that avarice is able to spread to any considerable extent, or to render it reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ?... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 sivua
...is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable; but whether it is not your interest known or heard of, were mercy to that new reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." Again : " I do not know, that the colonies have, in any... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 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. la a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is... | |
 | William Smyth - 1840 - 514 sivua
...as a necessary evil. I am resolved, sir, you see, to have notbun: 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... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 552 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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 sivua
...is, not whether yon 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 might to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 sivua
...have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not yoar interest to make them hippy. ey Allen reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is... | |
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