 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 páginas
...Casius old, where armies whole have sunk." 1 do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not...humanity, reason, and justice tell me, I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1820 - 502 páginas
...trouble had prevailed. " I do not (said he) examine the abstract question of right ; I do not inquire whether you have a right to render your people miserable...; 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 páginas
...majority. " The question with me," he said, " is not whether you have a right to render your people 1 miserable, but whether it is not your interest to...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... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 páginas
...Cassius old, where armies whole have sunk. 1 do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not...to make them happy? It is not what a lawyer tells m I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tells me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 518 páginas
...are in the highest degree inexpedient, what way yet remains? No way is open but the third and laut; people miserable, but whether it is not your interest...me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tells ire I ought to do. Is a politic I act the worse for being a generous one? Is no ; concession... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 páginas
...Casitu old, where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. " The question with me is, not...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 páginas
...oíd, where armies whole have »unk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such lawyei tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a polilic... | |
 | William Shepherd - 1834 - 298 páginas
...taxation, — I will not on this matter dtspute the point of right, but that of policy. ' The question is not whether you have a right to render your people...interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer may tell you, you may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice declare you ought to do.' Having thus... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 páginas
...thi.'j^h щ such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to ren'¡т your people miserable; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a hwyer tells me I mny do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." Again : "... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1835 - 458 páginas
...Casius old, where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." Notwithstanding this shyness of discussing a subject on the ground of abstract natural right, he acknowledges,... | |
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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. 
