| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 lehte
...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 no concession proper, but that which is made... | |
| 1782 - 434 lehte
...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... | |
| 1775 - 868 lehte
...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, tells me, I ought to do. Is , politick act the worle for being a generous one?... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 lehte
...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 ?... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 668 lehte
...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 - 502 lehte
...right to vender 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.' In many of Burke's speeches imagination occupies a great share ; passion in not a few. This is the... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 lehte
...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 - 520 lehte
...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 - 570 lehte
...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."—After a most elaborate speech, tending to shew the necessity of departing from that system of... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 lehte
...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 politick act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made... | |
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