 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.  Works - Seite 140von Edmund Burke - 1865Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 Seiten
...armirs whoU have •un&. I do not intend to he overwhelmed in that hog, though in such respectahle miserahle ; hut whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 Seiten
...sure footing in the middle. This point is the " great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Cassius old, where armies whole have sunk." I do not intend...overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. <fhe~ question with me is, not whether yon have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether... | |
 | John Morley - 1867 - 340 Seiten
...sure footing in the middle. This point is ' the great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk.' I do not intend...such respectable company. The question with me is i not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 596 Seiten
...prosperity. Burke tore in pieces the flimsy sophistry of the right of the mother country to tax.1 " The question with me is, not whether you have a right...whether it is not your interest to make them happy ?" Then, turning to the people who cheered on the Ministry, he says : — " I know, and have long felt,... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 322 Seiten
...right to shear a wolf. * * This point is 'the. great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk.' I do not intend...bog, though in such respectable company. The question is not, whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 Seiten
...Where armies whole bave sunk." —Milim't far. Lost, il. 594. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog, though in such respectable company. The question...you have a right to render your people miserable, bnt whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do,... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - 256 Seiten
...giving away a man's money be a power excepted and reserved out of the general trust of Government. . . . The question with me is not whether you have a right to ren der your people miserable, but whether it is not your inter1 est to make them happy. It is not... | |
 | Tokyo teikoku-daigaku - 1880 - 608 Seiten
...Daminta ati'l 145 Mount Casiwi old, when armie* whole have sunk. " I do iwt intend t« be overwlielmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The (question with me is, not whether I/OK hare a right to render your people, miserable; but whether it is not your interest to make tliem... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - 1884 - 360 Seiten
...is no sure footing in the middle. The point is That Serbonian bog Betwixt Damieta and Mount Cassius old, Where armies whole have sunk. ' * I do not intend to be overwhelmed in this bog; though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right... | |
 | 1888 - 892 Seiten
...literary Jacobin. So was Burke, — the author of those wise sentences that still ring in our ears : " The question with me is, not whether you 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,... | |
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