 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
 | 1875 - 462 pages
...people ; but many things acquired by the favor 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 upon this occasion to gain the huzzas of thousands,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 454 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." 1 And the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, who was no stranger to the Love of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 pages
...but many things acquired by the favor of either are, in my account, objects not worthy of ambition. I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which...later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of i-^i-'1' ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong -upon this occasion,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 464 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...sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pin-suit of noble ends by noble means." J And the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 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." And the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, who was no stranger to the Love of Glory,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 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... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 pages
...but many things acquired by the favour of either are, in my account, objects not worthy of ambition. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 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." And the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, who was no stranger to the Love of Glory,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1878 - 514 pages
...; but many things acquired by the favor 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. 1 will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 362 pages
...popularity which follows, not which is run after. It is that popularity which never fails, sooner or later, to do 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 applause of thousands, or the... | |
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