Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.


Coningsby (ed. 1881)


Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure,...

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure,...

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure,...

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure,...