 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
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 436 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...never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends hy noble means." And the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, who was no stranger... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 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...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 hnzz&s of... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...but many things acquired by the favor of cither are. in my account, objects not worthy of ambition. I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which...never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble I- 1 155 ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong upon this occasion,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1852 - 618 pages
...our permanent and steady aim be, to seek 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. No other wish is nearer or dearer to my heart than that of realizing such a cordial cooperation with... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1853 - 906 pages
...which Lord Mnnsficld spoke when, in the celebrated cause of the king against Wilkcs, he exclaimed, " I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which...which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to noble ends pursued by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong, to gain... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1853 - 972 pages
...favor of either are. in mv account, objects not worlhv of ambition. I wish popularity, but it is thai popularity which follows, not that which is run after....never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble lau ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong upon this occalion,... | |
 | Impeachments - 1853 - 832 pages
...account, objects not worth ambition. I wish POPULARITY; but it is that popularity which follows, not which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience ttlls me is wrontr, upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 1853 - 972 pages
...but many things acquired by the favor of either arc. in mv account, objects not wortliv of ambition. I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run ¡tfter. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of... | |
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