 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.  Mere Literature, and Other Essays - Side 143av Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 247 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 sider
...Lost, ii., 594. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper but that which is made... | |
 | Mary Francis Cusack - 1875 - 742 sider
...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 sider
...whole have 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...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 sider
...far. Lost, il. 594. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. bnt whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 516 sider
...whole have 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...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 - 1883 - 396 sider
...whole have 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...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... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 sider
...dignity of a ruling people, gratuitous, unconditional, and not held out as matter of bargain and sale." 2 "The question with me is, not whether you have a right...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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 518 sider
...whole have 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...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... | |
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