 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 pàgines
...the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as...that tyranny, that people should be eccentric."|| Lord Lytton makes his Lord L'Estrange exhibit whimsical peculiarities of character which obtain for... | |
 | 1866 - 924 pàgines
...the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend thu knee to custom, is itseif a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as...character has abounded, and the amount of eccentricity has generally been proportional to the »mount of genius, rncnt»! vigour, and moral courage which... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 pàgines
...mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to "custom, is itself a service.! Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as...;-' and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained.... | |
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pàgines
...the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as...; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 236 pàgines
...the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as...; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage 9 " which it contained.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 pàgines
...conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny_ of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach,...; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has general1" been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage it contained.... | |
 | 1865 - 590 pàgines
...the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as...character has abounded, and the amount of eccentricity has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1873 - 360 pàgines
...that there may be enough of them to ' point out the way/ Eccentricity is much required in these days. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as...strength of character has abounded, and the amount 01 eccentricity in a society has generally been proportioned to the amount of genius, mental vigour,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 434 pàgines
...the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as...tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity IIMS always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded."—Id. p. 129. But "the general... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 pàgines
...the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as...in order to break through that tyranny, that people power, there is a growing tendency to fawn upon them, to flatter them, and to speak nothing but smooth... | |
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now... 
