 | William Shepherd - United States - 1834 - 298 pages
...taxation, — I will not on this matter dtspute the point of right, but that of policy. ' The question is not whether you have a right to render your people...interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer may tell you, you may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice declare you ought to do.' Having thus... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...thi.'j^h щ such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to ren'¡т your people miserable; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a hwyer tells me I mny do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." Again : "... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 464 pages
...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 to render...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." Notwithstanding this shyness of discussing a subject on the ground of abstract natural right, he acknowledges,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question Y 8 ~ f 7 (5 H} ' X -ʺ،b8 4 Ů+@p} ...` = r p+ԡ5& ~ y 1}ؕ m ^ B F Y ' < 6 $ eƊ z` ],彆 K Again : " I do not know, that the colonies have, in any general way, or in any cool hour, gone much... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 614 pages
...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 to render...Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one 1 Is no concession proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant 1... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...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 to render...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. la a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made... | |
 | William Smyth - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...as a necessary evil. I am resolved, sir, you see, to have notbun: to do with the right of taxation. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. But the colonies will go further, it will be said. Alas ! alas ! what will quiet these panic fears... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether yon have a right to render your people miserable, but...do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I might to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper but that... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...594. 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 to render...to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells mo 1 may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...594. 1 do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog. though in such respectable company. The question yoar interest to make them hippy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason,... | |
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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. 
