 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pages
...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." In many of Burke's harangues, imagination occupies a great share, passion not a small one. The speech... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not yoor 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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is made from... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...have a riyht 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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made- from... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 450 pages
...have a riyht 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 outflit to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that... | |
 | John Fulton - 1864 - 582 pages
...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...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 from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from... | |
 | John Morley - 1867 - 340 pages
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper but that which is made from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 584 pages
...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 huifnanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. is a politic act the worse for being a generous... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...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. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from... | |
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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. 
