 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.  The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application - Page 130by Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1921 - 466 pages
...boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions. I hate the very sound of them. . . The question with me is not whether you have a right...whether it is not your interest to make them happy." In other words, since government is a practical affair of common life, practical consideration, and... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1893 - 730 pages
...deference. " The question with me," he said to English legislators in regard to us, "is not whether yon have a right to render your people miserable, but...whether it is not your interest to make them happy." By this philosophy the question for us is not whether it is within abstract right and legality to leave... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1894 - 408 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...happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but / 35 what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ou<jlit to do. Is a politic act the worse for being... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1894 - 126 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...happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but 35 what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I our/lit to do. Is a politic act the worse for being... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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