 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.  Speech on Conciliation with America - Página 81de Edmund Burke - 1904 - 164 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | United States. Congress - 1871 - 716 páginas
...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 your people...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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 páginas
...intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people...politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or does... | |
 | 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
...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 your people...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
...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:... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 páginas
...them happy ? It is not what a lawyer tells 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, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or does... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 582 páginas
...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 your people...politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or does... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 páginas
...company. The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, bnt no concession proper but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or does... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 páginas
...intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The i|uestion with me is this special observance, that you o'erslep not the..."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... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 páginas
...gratuitous, unconditional, and not held out as matter of bargain and sale." 2 "The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people...politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant? "* 1 Goldsmith:... | |
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