 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
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 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...later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of nol ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong, upon this occasion,... | |
 | John Todd - Christian life - 1845 - 402 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...sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuits of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong, upon... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 576 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... | |
 | edinburgh - 1846 - 556 pages
...but many things acquired by the favour of either, are, 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... | |
 | 1846 - 610 pages
...the favor of either, are, in my account, objects not worth ambition. I wish popularity, but it ¡s that popularity which follows, not that which is run...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...great. The popularity to be aimed at, according to the correct definition of Lord Mansfield, is " that which follows, not that which is run after; it is...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means." Mr. Sumner is next led to draw a comparison between fame derived from the pursuit of peaceful and useful... | |
 | 1848 - 874 pages
...great. The popularity to be aimed at, according to the correct definition of Lord Mansfield, is ' that which follows, not that which is run after; it is...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.' Mr Sumner is next led to draw a comparison between fame derived from the pursuit of peaceful and useful... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 528 pages
...tilings acquired by the favour of either, are, in my account, objecta not worth ambition. I wish for popularity ; but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after." In January 1770, he was offered the great seal, which he declined, and it was put into commission again.... | |
 | Virginia - 1850 - 114 pages
...bench should treasure in his memory the words of Lord Mansfield. " I wish," said that great judge, "popularity: but it is that popularity which follows,...justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means." Some of the reformers quote for our instruction the second clause of the bill of rights of Virginia,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 428 pages
...Mansfield, while confessing a love 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,... | |
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