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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... "
Getting On in the World; Or, Hints On Success in Life. by William Mathews ... - Page 96
de William Mathews - 1874 - 380 pages
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 64

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 pages
...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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 89

1866 - 924 pages
...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...
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liberty

john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...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....
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 pages
...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....
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 236 pages
...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....
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On Liberty, Numéro 57

John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 pages
...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....
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Victoria Magazine, Volume 6

1865 - 590 pages
...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...
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Getting on in the world; or, Hints on success in life

William Mathews - 1874 - 202 pages
...in this age the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently, does a service to his race. " Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is...been proportioned to the amount of genius, mental vitrour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief...
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

James Fitzjames Stephen - 1873 - 360 pages
...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,...
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The National quarterly review, ed. by E.I. Sears

Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 434 pages
...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...
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