 I wish popularity : but it is that popularity, which follows, not that which is run after; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.  The Quarterly Review - Page 4491836Full view - About this book
 | Philip Lindsley - 1866 - 742 pages
...take our creed." The Protestant Churches say: You must think for yourself, but take our creed." 7. " I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which...not that which is run after; it is that popularity (553) which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means."... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 560 pages
...popularity that is worth having: — ' that popularity which follows, not that which is run after; that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.'" And Hawthorne was right, for there is much that is of greater worth to the artist than popularity can... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 532 pages
...people ; but many things, acquired by the favour of either, are, in my account, not worth ambition. I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run alter. It is that popularity which, Foouer or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 540 pages
...is that popularity which follow?, not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, eooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by uoble means." In the famous riots of 1780, Lord Mansfield's house in Bloomsburysquare was attacked... | |
 | Young people - 1869 - 684 pages
...fear? The lies of calumny carry no terror to me. I have a suit of armour against these arrows. ... I wish popularity ; but it is that popularity which...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong, upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1870 - 462 pages
...Mansfield, while confessing a wish for popularity, added, in words which cannot be too often quoted, " But it is that popularity which follows, not that...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means." J And the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, who was no stranger to the Love of... | |
 | Franklin Fiske Heard - 1871 - 234 pages
...MANSFIELD, while confessing a wish for -LJ popularity, added, in words which cannot be too often quoted, " But it is that popularity which follows, not that...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means." 2 i The Amber Witch, translated by Lady Duff Gordon, pp. 78 - 80. « The King ». Wilkes, 4 Burrow,... | |
 | Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 pages
...people ; but many things acquired by the favour of either, are in my account objects not worth ambition. I wish popularity ; but it is that popularity which...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to gain the huzzas of thousands, or the daily... | |
 | N. H. Jaffrey - 1873 - 108 pages
...of the partisan politician ; — but that ambition described by Lord Mansfield, when he said, — " I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means." We dedicate it to rational Amusement. cial intercourse, a relaxation from toil, a kindly regard for... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 pages
...but many things acquired by the favour of either are, in my account, objects not worthy of ambition. I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of... | |
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