 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
 | Law - 1833 - 560 pages
...law to be ; ii we do not speak our real opinions, we prevaricate with God and our own conscience. * * 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... | |
 | William Sullivan - Ethics - 1833 - 380 pages
...popularity which /o/tow», not that which is run after ; it is that popularity 300 MORAL CLASS BOOK. which, sooner or later, never fails 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 huzzas of thousands, nor the... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...midst of so many political and professional foes, to utter the thrilling declaration, " I wish for popularity ; but it is that popularity, which follows...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... | |
 | African Americans - 1835 - 466 pages
...popularity which is "run after:" none more than he lived to enjoy of " that popularity which follows ;" " that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means." The extent of it is indicated by the gloom which his death has cast over the land — a gloom deeper... | |
 | William Henry C. Grey - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1835 - 592 pages
...respect the people; but many things acquired by the favour of either, are objects not worth ambition. I wish popularity; but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after. It is the popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble... | |
 | African Americans - 1835 - 406 pages
...popularity which is "run after:" none more than he lived to enjoy of " that popularity which follows ;" " that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of nohle ends hy nohle means." 1835.] Й55 The patriot feels that a pillar of the Constitution has fallen... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...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, upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1836 - 684 pages
...pursue, as he hitherto has done, " that fame which follows, not that which is run after; that fame which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means." And if our free republic is doomed to perish, of which the signs are so many and so portentous, and... | |
 | United States - 1836 - 494 pages
...still pursue, as he hitherto has done, "that fame which follows, not that which is run after; that fame which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means." And if our free republic is doomed to perish, of which the signs are so many and so portentous, and... | |
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