 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...Casius old, where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse ibr being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...question with me is, not whether you have a right to vender your people miserable; but whether it'is not your interest to make them happy? It is not what...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do.' In many of Burke's speeches imagination occupies a great share ; passion in not a few. This is the... | |
 | charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...measures by " which you now lose to those by which you formerly gained.""—The question with me, said he, is, not whether you have a right to render your people...what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."—After a most elaborate speech, tending to shew the necessity of departing from that system of... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...old. •where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...Casius old. .where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not...; but whether it is not your interest to make them hap-' py. It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...right; I do not inquire whether you " have a right to render your people miserable ; but, whe" ther it is not your interest to make them happy. It is...but what humanity, " reason, and justice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your kl old mode of treating the colonies, they were well affected VOL. I. Z... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...right; I do not inquire whether you " have a right to render your people miserable ; but, who " ther it is not your interest to make them happy. It is...what a lawyer tells me, I may do; but what humanity, " reasjon, and justice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your " old mode of treating the colonies, they... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 768
...Casius old, where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper, but that which is made... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...Casius old, where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not...humanity, reason, and justice tell me, I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 834
...trouble had prevailed. " I do not (said he) examine the abstract " question of right ; I do not inquire whether you have a right " to render your people miserable...interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer telle f me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell '' me, that I ought to do. By your... | |
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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. 
