 | Edmund Burke - 1907 - 120 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...miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happj". It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1907 - 446 Seiten
...plans of government except from a seat of authority. (/) This point is the great Serbonian bog . . . where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend to be...overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. (g) Lord Coke, the oracle of the English law, conforms to that general sense where he says that ' those... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1908 - 108 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 to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in 25 such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people... | |
 | Roy Macgregor Grier, Francis Aidan Hibbert - 1908 - 450 Seiten
...sentence summed up the best defence of their case, " The question of taxation is less than nothing. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to make the people miserable, but whether it is not to your interest to make them happy." But before the... | |
 | McGill University - 1910 - 72 Seiten
...with the question of the right of taxation .... The question is not whether you have a right to make your people miserable but whether it is not your interest to make them. happy . . . My idea is therefore to admit the people of our colonies into an interest in the constitution.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1911 - 318 Seiten
...point is the great Serbonian bog betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk.1 I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though...not whether you have a right to render your people 1 Paradise Lost, ii. 592 i miserable, but whether it is not your interest to maku them happy. It is... | |
 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1911 - 478 Seiten
...no sure footing in the middle. The point is " That Sorbornian bog Betwixt Pamietta 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... | |
 | Garrett Putman Serviss - 1912 - 236 Seiten
...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...people miserable, but whether it is not your interest 177 to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 Seiten
.... . . The people have no interest in disorder.* So with respect to the American colonists he said : The question with me is, not whether you have a right...whether it is not your interest to make them happy, t And again : I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people, t In temper... | |
 | George Sidney Brett - 1913 - 346 Seiten
...utility as a guiding principle in affairs of State, and speaks the language of Bentham when he says " the question with me is not whether you have a right to render vour people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy." ' In short, Burke upheld... | |
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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. 
