 | George Peck - 1854 - 312 páginas
...being torn to pieces by an infuriated multitude, for the course he took in trying a case. Says he : "I wish popularity; but it is that popularity which...justice to the pursuits 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... | |
 | 1854 - 576 páginas
...; but, many things acquired by the favor of either are, in my account, objects not wortli ambition. I wish popularity ; but it is that popularity 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, u;on... | |
 | Robert Richard Pearce - 1855 - 488 páginas
...the 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...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 upon... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 páginas
...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...follows, not that which is run after ; it is that popu larity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of nol ends by noble means.... | |
 | 1855 - 778 páginas
...— * 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. I will not do that which my conscience tolls me is wrong, upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of... | |
 | Henry Washington Hilliard - 1855 - 510 páginas
...judge, uttered in the midst of a fierce popular excitement ? " It is true," said Lord Mansfield, "I love popularity, but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after ; the popularity which, sooner or later, is sure to crown the pursuit of noble ends by noble means."... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 406 páginas
...favor of either, are, in my account, objects not worth ambition. I wish popularity ; but it is the popularity which follows, not that which is run after...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 upon... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 424 páginas
...favor of either, are, in my account, objects not worth ambition. I wish popularity ; but it is the popularity which follows, not that which is run after...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 upon... | |
 | Stephen Franks Miller - 1858 - 498 páginas
...might be. If rebellion was the cei tilin consequence, we are bound to say, "Fiat juilitia mat ccelum." I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which...sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by nokU means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong upon... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 páginas
...recipients ; and most right-minded men will say of them what Lord Mansfield said of popularity,—' I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which...sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.' The treaty with Tippoo left Lord Cornwallis at liberty to resume... | |
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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. 
