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. I will not do that which my conscience tells... Eloquence of the United States - Página 2781827Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| George Henry Williams - 1901 - 66 páginas
...away. Not all appreciate the words of Mansfield, who said, while trying the case of Rex v. Wilkes, "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 thousands... | |
| Harr Wagner - 1902 - 580 páginas
...away. Not all appreciate the words of Mansfield, who said, while trying the case of Rex v. Wilkes, "I wish popularity; but it is that popularity which...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I will nol do that which my conscience tells me is wrong upon this occasion to gain the huzzas of thousands... | |
| James William Norton-Kyshe - 1904 - 432 páginas
...Works, Vol. IV., 497. * See ante, COUNSEL, 13, и. DICTIONARY OF LEGAL QUOTATIONS. Judges — continued. 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 this occasion, to gain the huzzas of thousands,... | |
| Horace Garvin Platt - 1908 - 300 páginas
...away. Not all appreciate the words of Mansfield, who said, while trying the case of Rex vs. Wilkes : "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 thousands... | |
| Horace Garvin Platt - 1908 - 296 páginas
...indifferent to a monarch's frown, granted Wilkes's petition, and then addressed the mob in these words : "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 thousands... | |
| 1909 - 1234 páginas
...honour the King, and respect the people ; but many things acquired by the favour of either are objects not worth ambition. I wish popularity; but it is 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 huzzahs of thousands,... | |
| John Henry Wigmore - 1912 - 1076 páginas
...and respect the people; but many things, acquired by the favor of either, are in my account objects d of the Admiralty, told him that Lord Sandwich was not before the Court.) will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong, upon this occasion, to gain the huzzas of thousands... | |
| Illinois State Bar Association - 1908 - 502 páginas
...acquired by the favour of either are, in my account,, objects not worth ambition. I wish popularity; but it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never...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 thousands,... | |
| 1825 - 938 páginas
...respect the people ; but many things acquired by the favour of either, are, in my account, objects not worth ambition. I wish popularity ; but it is...justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong, on this occasion, to gain 'he huzzas of thousands,... | |
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