 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1894 - 120 pages
...whole have sunk." 30 I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a 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... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 460 pages
...and ten times the money."4 Burke makes frequent and effective use of antithesis. For example : — " The question with me is, not whether you have a right...do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous oneV Is no concession proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant?... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 138 pages
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not 5 whether you have a right to render your people miserable...the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession 10 proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant? Or does it lessen... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1895 - 136 pages
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not 5 whether you have a right to render your people miserable...the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession 10 proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant? Or does it lessen... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1895 - 370 pages
...over again the necessity for making this important distinction. " The question with me," he says, " Is not whether you have a right to render your people...humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do. . . . I do not enter into metaphysical details, I hate the very sound of them." To take a stand like... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 460 pages
...and ten times the money."4 Burke makes frequent and effective use of antithesis. For example : — " The question with me is, not whether you have a right...may do : but what humanity, reason, and justice tell rnr,. I outfit to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper,... | |
 | English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...have no force. He spoke out in plain words, and appealed to their reason and their own interest. " The question with me is not whether you have a right...whether it is not your interest to make them happy." Had his hearers been less corrupt, had they been but a- little less blinded by their personal interests... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1895 - 156 pages
...whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is not whether you have a right...miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make 5 them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1895 - 158 pages
...whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is not whether you have a right...miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make 5 them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell... | |
 | Mary Frances Hyde - English language - 1895 - 246 pages
...down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles. 5. Wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. 6. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. —BURKE. 7. They had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. 8. Too late !... | |
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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. 
