 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.  Public Speaking, Principles and Practice - Página 243por James Albert Winans - 1915 - 476 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 páginas
...overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. <fhe~ question with me is, not whether yon have a right to render your people miserable ; but...them happy. ^ It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I Jnxcff~Ao; but wfiaTlTumanflyT'reason, and justice tell me, I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 596 páginas
...Burke tore in pieces the flimsy sophistry of the right of the mother country to tax.1 " The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render...whether it is not your interest to make them happy ?" Then, turning to the people who cheered on the Ministry, he says : — " I know, and have long felt,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 584 páginas
...sunk. I do not intend to vbe overwhelmed hi that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render...It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what huifnanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. is a politic act the worse for being a generous... | |
 | Henry Flowerdew - 1871 - 156 páginas
...I do not intend to J39 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. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is made from... | |
 | Mary Francis Cusack - 1873 - 724 páginas
...appealed to their self-interest, and he lowered himself to his audience. The question he said was, " not whether you have a right to render your people...humanity, reason, and . justice, tell me I ought to do." The common idea about the separation of the States from England, is simply that they resisted a stamp... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1871 - 716 páginas
...think the House will see the wisdom of the following passage, which I shall now read: " Tho question with me is not whether you have a right to render...lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, andjustice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act tho worao for being a generous one? Is no concession... | |
 | Mary Francis Cusack - 1875 - 742 páginas
...audience. The question he said was, "not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, bu; whether it is not your interest to make them happy....humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." The common idea about the separation of the States from England, is simply that they resisted a stamp... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 páginas
...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...me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tells me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper,... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 322 páginas
...sunk.' I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question is not, whether you have a right to render your people...whether it is not your interest to make them happy." Again, of the distinctions of rights, he says: "I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions:... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 páginas
...594. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The i|uestion tion; with this special observance, that you o'erslep..."Eloquence, in this empire, is power. Give a man nerve, ou.Jht to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that... | |
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