 | Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 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 10 proper, but that which is made... | |
 | Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton - 1892 - 80 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 294 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... | |
 | 1892 - 734 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 1 Speech on Taxation, Payne's Select Works of Burke, Vol. I, p. 153-4. I ought to do."1 Burke would... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1893 - 324 str.
...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...which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant?"2 1 Goldsmith : Retaliation. The poem is full of antitheses. See also Pope and Dryden. 2 Burke... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1893 - 730 str.
...rules." It is a question of expediency. "It is," cried Burke at thetimeof the American revolution, "not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." And to Burke's political philosophy we Americans of all nations ought to pay deference. " The question... | |
 | William Edward Mead - 1894 - 298 str.
...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...made from your want of right to keep what you grant?" * " We do not mean, however, to represent him [Cranmer] as a monster of wickedness. He was not wantonly... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 410 str.
...whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but 35 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1894 - 120 str.
...right to render your people mis• erable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but 35 what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 392 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 do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is... | |
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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. 
