 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 str.
...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 no concession proper, but that which is made from... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1816 - 834 str.
...miserable ; but, whether it is not your •' interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer telle f me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell '' me, that I ought to do. By your old mode of treating the CX!VF " colonies, they were well affected to you,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 str.
...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...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 from... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1820 - 502 str.
...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, that I ought to do. By your old mode of treating the colonies, they were well affected to you, M 3... | |
 | 1897 - 808 str.
...a right to render your people 1 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. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring tranquillity, and the general character and situation... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 str.
...lawyer tells m I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tells 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 from 'our want of right to keep what you gran ? Or does it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in he... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 518 str.
...open but the third and laut; people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy? It is not what a law¡yer tells 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 str.
...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 no concession proper, but that which is made from... | |
 | 1833 - 930 str.
...comply with the American spirit as neces. sary, or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do. Of what avail are titles and arms, 1832.] The Spirit of Anglo-Irish Legislation.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 str.
...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." Again : " I do not know, that the colonies have, in any general way, or in any cool hour, gone much... | |
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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. 
