 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1899 - 178 pages
...the great "Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, 15 Where armies whole have sunk."0 I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question0 with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it... | |
 | English Orators - 1899 - 616 pages
...no sure footing in the middle. The point is " That Serbonian bog Betwixt Damieta and Mount Cassius old, Where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 274 pages
...footing in the middle. This point " is the great Serbonian bog, betwixt 1190 Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend...miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them 1195 happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 136 pages
...the Serbonian bog was situated between the Isthmus of Suez, the Mediterranean, aud the Nile delta, in that bog, though in such respectable company.^...whether it is not your interest to make them happy, yflt is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and 5 justice tell me I ought... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 464 pages
...sure footing in the middle. This point is the great " Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend...question with me is, not whether you have a right to renderjrour people miserable, but whether -it. is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what... | |
 | Orators - 1900 - 496 pages
...no sure footing in the middle. The point is " That Serbonian bog Betwixt Damieta and Mount Cassius old, Where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 500 pages
...is no sure footing in the middle. The point is "That Serbonian bog Betwixt Damieta and Mount Cassius old, Where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1901 - 186 pages
...footing in the middle. This point is the great Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, io Where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend to be...miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them 15 happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - English literature - 1902 - 506 pages
...and violent courses.' ' The question with me,' he says in one of his deep aphoristic ejaculations, ' is not whether you have a right to render your people...whether it is not your interest to make them happy.' ' Nobody shall persuade me, when a whole people are concerned, that acts of lenity are not means of... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1902 - 316 pages
...the great ' ' Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk."22 I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. 22. From Paradise Lost, The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people... | |
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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. 
