 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - Broj stranica: 556
...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...humanity, reason, and justice 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... | |
 | 1782 - Broj stranica: 434
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - Broj stranica: 676
...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 ?... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - Broj stranica: 502
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - Broj stranica: 368
...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 ?... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1803 - Broj stranica: 520
...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... | |
 | charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - Broj stranica: 570
...those by which you formerly gained.""—The question with me, said he, is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - Broj stranica: 560
...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...humanity, 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - Broj stranica: 518
...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...humanity, 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - Broj stranica: 512
...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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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. 
