 | Stephen H. Browne - 1993 - 172 sider
...but not abstractly, concretely but not pedantically. Burke can now claim without inconsistency that it "is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." Here the appeal to circumstances and principled response conflates motives to honor and expedience,... | |
 | 1957 - 264 sider
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 | Joseph L. Pappin - 1993 - 216 sider
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 | Bernard Crick - 1993 - 272 sider
...responsibility to make a peace that would endure. ' It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do,' cried Burke, 'but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a political act the worse for being a generous one ? ' Also, it is hard not to think that the demand... | |
 | James Conniff - 1994 - 384 sider
...sentences. "I am not determining a point of law; I am restoring tranquillity," he argued; therefore, "it is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." 46 If, he continued, the Americans have violated the Declaratory Act, or some other law passed in its... | |
 | Antony Jay - 1996 - 536 sider
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 | Ted Goodman - 1997 - 1008 sider
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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. 
