| Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 ページ
...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... | |
| Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 344 ページ
...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... | |
| Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - 1884 - 360 ページ
...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... | |
| Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 346 ページ
...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... | |
| Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 354 ページ
...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 - 1886 - 276 ページ
...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.— Sfeech on Condl. with America. I was true to my old, standing, invariable principle, that all things... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 492 ページ
...hours. With the question of the right of taxation he would have nothing to do. ' It is not,' he said, ' what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.' The resolutions were negatived by 270 to 78. Burke's health seems to have suffered from his unavailing... | |
| Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 ページ
...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... | |
| 1888 - 892 ページ
...have a right to render your people miserable, tut 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. Nobody shall persuade me, where a whole people are concerned, that acts of lenity are not means of... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 ページ
...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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