 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
 | Woodrow Wilson - Americana - 1896 - 264 pages
...those principles, or deriding some of those feelings, for which our ancestors have shed their blood." " The question with me is, not whether you have a right...render your people miserable, but whether it is not ,j your interest to make them happy. It is not what f a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1896 - 378 pages
...If--. ' '\ . r L_ I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in si]ch respectable company. The question with me is —not whether you have a right to render your people^ miserable. buT'whethe'r it la hoi your interest to Tna>-Q— them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1896 - 248 pages
...1 °~ -*»'-/l ' 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 15 miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Albert Stanburrough Cook - Great Britain - 1896 - 256 pages
...giving away a man's money be a power excepted and reserved out of the general trust of government. . . . The question with me is not whether you have a right to Tender your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - American literature - 1897 - 314 pages
...certain circumstances, 'the most odious of all wrongs and the most vexatious of all injustice.' . . .('The question with me is not whether you have a...justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the vtarse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is made from your want of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 110 pages
...whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in 5 such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right...reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic 10 act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is made from your... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 232 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...whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It 25 is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 238 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...whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It 25 is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to... | |
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