 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
 | Jasper Adams - Christian ethics - 1837 - 554 pages
...that Lord MansGeld claimed for himself. " I wish for popularity ; " said that great jurist, •• but it is that popularity which follows, not that...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... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...magistrate* — He wished for popularity ; 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. He would not do, what his conscience told him was wrong, to gain the huzzas of thousands, or the daily... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 502 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...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... | |
 | Oratory - 1840 - 452 pages
...but, many things acquired by the favour of either, ore, in my account, objects not worth ambition. 1 wish 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... | |
 | Portfolio - 1843 - 676 pages
...am I to fear ? That mendax infamia from the press, which daily coins false facts and false motives? I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I can say with a great magistrate, under circumstances not unlike, " Ego hoc animo semper fui, ut invidiam... | |
 | David Urquhart - Great Britain - 1844 - 702 pages
...am I to fear? That mendax infamia from the press, which daily coins false facts and false motives? I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I can say with a great magistrate, under circumstances not unlike, " Ego hoc animo semper fui, ut invidiam... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 602 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. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of... | |
 | David Urquhart - Europe - 1844 - 666 pages
...am I to fear? That mendax infamia from the press, which daily coins false facts and false motives? I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I can say with a great magistrate, under circumstances not unlike, " Ego hoc animo semper fui, ut invidiam... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...dialectics. - There is much grandeur of sentiment in the following passage from his judgment in this case. "I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after. 1 will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong, upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of... | |
 | Literature - 1864 - 640 pages
...may both parts of Lord Mansfield's celebrated declaration be better applied than to him : " I love popularity ; but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after." I do not know, Mr. President, what may be the custom of this society on occasions like the present.... | |
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