 | David Hume - 1810 - 568 sider
...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 - 578 sider
...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... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1816 - 834 sider
...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... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1820 - 502 sider
...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...; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your old mode of treating the colonies, they were well affected to you, M 3... | |
 | 1897 - 808 sider
...majority. " The question with me," he said, " is not whether you have a right to render your people 1 miserable, but whether it is not your interest to...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring tranquillity, and the general character and situation... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 sider
...whole have sunk. 1 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 make them happy? It is not what a lawyer tells m I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tells me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 518 sider
...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though is not correctly right. , in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your If then the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty he, for the greater part, orj... | |
 | 1833 - 930 sider
...comply with the American spirit as neces. sary, or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do. Of what avail are titles and arms, 1832.] The Spirit of Anglo-Irish Legislation.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 sider
...whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in snch respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." Again : " I do not know, that the colonies have, in any general way, or in any cool hour, gone much... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 sider
...whole have »unk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. lawyei tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a polilic... | |
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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. 
