...refpcftable company. The queiuoa with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miferable; but whether it is not your intereft to make them happy...tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reafon, and jußice, tells me, I ought to do. Is a politic aft the work for being a generous one ? Is no conceffion...

...comply with the American fpirit as neceflary, or, if you pleafe, to , fubmit to it as a neceflary evil. It is not what a lawyer * tells me I may do, but what humanity, reafori, and juftice tells me I ought to do. Of what avail are titles and arms, when the reafon of...

...refpectable company. The queftion with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miferable ; but whether it is not your intereft to make them happy?...reafon, and juftice, tell me, I ought .to do. Is a politic act the worfe for being a generous one ? Is no conceffion proper, but that which is made from...

...is, not whether you have a right to vender 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 speeches imagination occupies a great...

...refpectable company. The queftion with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miferable ; but whether it is not your intereft to make them happy....generous one ? Is no conceffion proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or does it leffen the grace or dignity of relaxing...

...abftract queftion of right; I do not inquire whether you have a right to render your people miferable; but, whether it is not your intereft to make them...; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your old mode of treating the colonies, i they they were well affe&ed to you,...

...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."—After a most elaborate speech, tending to shew the necessity...

...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. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ?...

...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 me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ?...

...whether you " have a right to render your people miserable ; but, whe" ther 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, that I ought to do. By your kl old mode of treating the colonies, they...