 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...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 miserable...; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...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 miserable; but whether it is not your interest to make them hap-' py. It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1810 - 578 pages
...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... | |
 | John Roche - Great Britain - 1813 - 310 pages
...suspicion, that the plan itself is not correctly right." (Ibid. p. 72). " The question with me is not, whether you have a right to render your people miserable...do; but what 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...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 miserable;...; but what 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 460 pages
...company. The question with HK is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; bat whether it is not your interest to make them happy....; but what humanity, reason^ and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ? Is DO concession proper, but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...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 miserable...do; but what 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... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1816 - 834 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...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 miserable...; but what 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... | |
 | Phillips Charles 1787?-1859, ed - 1819 - 480 pages
...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 miserable...; but what 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... | |
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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. 
