 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.  Burke - Стр. 72авторы: John Morley - 1879 - Страниц: 214Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - Страниц: 556
...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...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 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 502
...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 a lawyer tells...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 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 570
...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...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - Страниц: 518
...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...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 - Страниц: 512
...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...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... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - Страниц: 568
...whether you " have a right to render your people miserable ; but, whe" ther it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not " what a lawyer tells...but what humanity, " reason, and justice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your kl old mode of treating the colonies, they were well affected VOL. I. Z... | |
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