...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...

...intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not 5 whether you have a right to render your people miserable...politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession 10 proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or...

...words. 3. What is the meaning of the line, He has been among his shadows ? III. 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...

...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...

...question of expediency, still debatable. Half a century later Burke would be reminding his hearers that, 'It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me that I ought to do'; and that was a consideration which was - usually - kept in mind. So much so, that...

...204-5. emotion and the itch to assert a "rightful" power. "The question with me is," he said in 1775, "not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not in your interest to make them happy."2 To those who argued that the colonists were committing a criminal...

...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,...

...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...whether it is not your interest to make them happy? Is it not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought...

...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...

...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...