 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 452 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 been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 pages
...the vestibule to glorious mansions, to which a moving crowd is forever passing. — Joanna Bailey. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength...abounded. And the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. — /. S.... | |
 | 1905 - 330 pages
...if something passed into my dancing blood from it. — LOWELL. Eccentricity has always abounded when strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccen- 210 tricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through...abounded when and where strength of character has 2« abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount... | |
 | John Fyvie - 1906 - 352 pages
...not to be taken in every case as a term of reproach; for, as John Stuart Mill long ago pointed out, eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded. Moreover, the eleven Literary Eccentrics here presented exhibit the quality in very varying degree... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pages
...affect to be distinguished by them. — Sir W. Temple. Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity. Balzac. ! /Z0 /Z0 x/Z0 been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. — JS Mill.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...affect to be distinguished by them. — Sir W. Temple. Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity. Balzac. 'er feels deeply, been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. — JS Mill.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 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...abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 508 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...abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 468 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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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... 
