 | English literature - 1793 - 702 pages
...run after. — It is that populaiity which, fonner or later, never fails to do jultice to the purfuit of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my confidence tells me is wrong upon this occaGon, to gain the buzzas of thonl.uids, or the daily praife... | |
 | History - 1793
...to gain the huzzas of thoufatids, or the daily praife of all the papers which come from the prefs. I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it mould draw on me the whole artillery of libels, all that falfehood and malice can invent, or the credulity... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1793 - 550 pages
...run after. — It is that popularity which, (boner or later, never fails to do juftice to the purfuit of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my coufcience tells me is wrong upon .this occafion, to gain the huzzas of thoufands, or the daily praife... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1801 - 436 pages
...run after. — )t is that popularity which, fooner or later, never fails to do juftice to the purfuit of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my confcience tells me is wrong upon this occafion, to gain the huzzas of thoufands, or the daily praife... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 600 pages
...wish popularity ; but it is that popularity which follpws, not that which is run after : it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.' * His disregard of literary profit may be based on another great lawyer's authority — ' Glory is... | |
 | Virginia - 1814 - 260 pages
...ambition. I wish Popularity; But it is popularity which follows, not that which U run after. It is that popularity., which, sooner or later, never fails to...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means." Let the vain and selfish hunter of popularity, the pcor and low spirited intriguer for office, who... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...follows,not that which is run alter; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to da justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means...occasion, to gain, the huzzas of thousands,, or the daily praises of all the papers which issue from the press.. I will net avoid doing what 1 think is right,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 758 pages
...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...noble means. I will not do that which my conscience telis me is wrong upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of thousands, or the daily praise of all the... | |
 | John Farmer - Local history - 1823 - 526 pages
...moderate. " If he ever aimed at popularity, it was that which follows, not that which is run after ; that popularity which sooner or later never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by honest means. He would not do that which his conscience told him was wrong, to gain the huzzas of the... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 542 pages
...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...justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means. I shall not, therefore, on this occasion, do what my conscience tells me is wrong, to court the applause... | |
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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. 
