| 单词 | self-renunciation |
| 例句 | If this is followed to its logical conclusion, Harvard will undergo nothing short of total self-renunciation. By retiring a seal, Harvard wages war on the dead — but to what end? 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The first condition of all really great moral excellence is a spirit of genuine self-sacrifice and self-renunciation. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z "Far be it from me to belittle them who recognized their hard and repulsive duty in the plague last winter, and performed it with utter self-renunciation," said Stephen Hopkins. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z “By hope and faith and charity, and the sublime doctrine of self-renunciation, all will yet come right, my father.” Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z The least act of pure self-renunciation hallows, for the moment, all within its sphere. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z He ascended once more to the summit, and there prostrated himself in utter self-renunciation and self-effacement. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Summon to your aid all analogies of self-renunciation which history records or imagination suggests. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z It meant, in short, self-renunciation and social martyrdom. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z Now, who will furnish the rule for sacrifice, the formula for self-renunciation? Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Christ, the great Model of self-renunciation, appeals for sympathy to the better self within each one of us—which was created in us—the breath of God in man. Niece Catherine 2011-07-30T02:00:13.927Z In the monstrous war we are now witnessing, is there a less heroic defence of home and nation, and less conscious self-renunciation among the non-believers than among the professed Christians? A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z He required from His disciples the completest self-renunciation, combined with enthusiastic self-devotion to the duty of making the world better. The Making of an Apostle 2011-07-26T02:00:19.187Z But he did not understand that this very feeling no longer needed to disguise itself; because, by self-renunciation, it had become purified and transfigured. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z We further say, 'Consider the godliness, piety and self-renunciation of those who believe.' Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Charity is a sacrifice; and who can find the rule of sacrifice, the formula of self-renunciation? Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Charles was now living in the joyful consciousness that a great good was to come out of his self-renunciation; but it was vastly different with the man for whom the renunciation had been made. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z I ought not to have robbed you of your peace, to have taken from you the power of self-renunciation; I acknowledge it. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z I have learned it from the lofty self-renunciation of this letter. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z For a little while he could not trust himself to speak; his love threatened to overmaster his self-renunciation. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame "For poverty and self-renunciation The Father yieldeth back a thousand-fold; In the calm stillness of regeneration, Cometh a joy we never knew of old." Brother Francis Less than the least To your family this silence meant guilt, but to me and mine it has told only a tale of self-renunciation and devotion. X Y Z A Detective Story He preaches self-renunciation; but the self-renunciation he commends is not self-mortification; it is the active self-abandonment of devotion to our appropriate work. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Can your world-wisdom produce a harmony of all the tendencies and dispositions of the soul, a quietude of the spirit, a state of self-renunciation, because our whole life is one continual act of self-sacrifice? Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine He was no longer in sympathy with that mood of self-renunciation which had influenced him in their last interview. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame Such were those of the whitest of God's saints, and a like eternal, triumphant victory is ours, if we, too, are willing to pay the full price—a life of utter self-renunciation. Brother Francis Less than the least My lady replies with immense self-renunciation, like that of the blessed saints: 'Say nothing, my poor Louise. The New Warden The toil, the perseverance, the self-renunciation which associate Mr. Mann with Antioch are too great for conventional phrases of eulogy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Her life must have been an agony of self-renunciation, an eternal effort not to be. The Return of the Prodigal Many were the causes which predisposed her to what was, after all, anything but an act of self-renunciation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Raising his voice, he invoked the fatherland's eternal gratitude for such loyalty and self-renunciation even unto death. The Forerunners In the passion for political greatness as such, the Dutch have never found the spur, the incitement to heroic action or to heroic self-renunciation which religion for a time supplied. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe The general idea, that self-renunciation lies at the foundation, is brought out in Psalm xlv. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 Religious observances provide the sensuous atmosphere, the call for self-renunciation, the means of expressing powerful and voluminous feeling, that the potential or disappointed lover needs. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Of his sincerity, of his self-renunciation, of his deep and fervent piety, of his almost boundless activity, there can be no question. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Its popularity probably is due to the night scene and the spirit of self-renunciation. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History There have been devotees who practised very little self-denial with very much self-renunciation. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions And the vision of her duty and the thought of his disappointment led her to refuse pleasure's spiced cup, and choose self-renunciation and a life for others. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character You remember the words of Ruskin, that the woman must be "incorruptibly good, instinctively, infallibly wise, not for self-development, but for self-renunciation," and that will be the highest development. What a Young Woman Ought to Know And the Christian life that is dearest to the heart of God, and will rise to the highest glory and usefulness, is the one whose foundation principle is sacrifice and self-renunciation. Days of Heaven Upon Earth And is not the Cross, which is the emblem of self-renunciation and self-effacement, the motive power of our faith, as it is also the embodied ideal of our Life? India, Its Life and Thought The Bible everywhere abounds with an intenseness of zeal for the Divine glory, and with a depth of self-renunciation on the part of the writers. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Do we help him, unseen, towards that act of charity, humiliation, or self-renunciation? Gold Dust A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life Yet, in spite of all that such a vocation meant of self-renunciation, year after year the Mission Priests increased in number. Life of St. Vincent de Paul The incoming of the Holy Ghost displaces self and disgraces self forever, and the highest holiness is to walk in self-renunciation. Days of Heaven Upon Earth But when the Hindu ascetic has not this object in self-renunciation, his austerities are an end in themselves. India, Its Life and Thought Today they are ceremonial, with works of charity, self-renunciation or religious mendicancy generally added. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ The essence of true love is not its tenderness, but its strength, power of endurance, its purity, its self-renunciation. Gold Dust A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life But seeing the afflictions of his brethren, he preferred to share their lot than enjoy all the advantages of his elevated rank in the palace of the king—an act of self-renunciation unparalleled in history. Ancient States and Empires It delights in the garb of humility, and finds its food in the profession of self-renunciation. Humanity in the City The Hebrews may have written a book that teaches, of all others, self-renunciation, but the way they taught it was self-assertion. The Lost Art of Reading And if a man be not capable of this self-renunciation — this loyal surrender of himself to Nature and to fact, he lacks, in my opinion, the first mark of a true philosopher. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 And it lay but lightly upon him, joyfully almost—rather as a ridding of himself of possible perturbations and obsessions, than as an act of most austere self-renunciation. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The meaning of such sacrifice is to reach some ultimate truth, some positive ideal, which in its greatness can accept suffering and transmute it into the profound peace of self-renunciation. Creative Unity The terrible deed of self-renunciation was over, and familiar faces actually were smiling upon her and wishing her joy. Marcia Schuyler She had much work to do, but by it she was supporting herself, and at the same time advancing towards her “clear-purposed goal” of self-renunciation. Mary Wollstonecraft Believe me, a self-renunciation which has something lofty in it, and of which the world never hears, is often enacted in the private experience of the true votary of science. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The ideal of giving, of enriching, in fine, of self-renunciation in response to the highest call of humanity is the other and complementary ideal. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches His doctrine may be summed up in a word: he teaches self-renunciation. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Detractors have done their best to pare away the merit of this act of self-renunciation by attributing it to despair. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron Only an hour ago and his voice could have reached her in words of entreaty and of passionate repentance and humble self-renunciation. Cobwebs and Cables The great advantage we derive from Christ is his life, in which we behold a perfect harmony of nature, absolute self-renunciation, pure love, and resignation. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Many a girl, with a sublime self-renunciation, stifling an agony sharper than death, has given up a lover to a friend, in silence and secrecy. The Friendships of Women There is more grandeur in five minutes of such self-renunciation than in a whole lifetime of self-interest and self-seeking. Making the Most of Life It was to be the crowning act of her self-renunciation, and it strained every fibre of her resolution. The Cow Puncher Francis had given himself up too completely not to claim from others an absolute self-renunciation. Life of St. Francis of Assisi His next words were determined by that look, and there was no little self-renunciation in his pursuance of a subject he would fain have dropped for one nearer his heart. The Mayor of Warwick God only knew what passed through his soul at that minute—what agonies of self-renunciation, what martyrdom of all that makes life pleasant and dear to a man! Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance Joan was not more selfish than the young generally are; she had hours of noble self-renunciation and generosity. The Shield of Silence Let none take this noble work in hand without a desire to give, in its degree, the best work that can be given in absolute self-renunciation, humility, and reverence. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. “Mebbe he will,” replied Andrew, with a voice in which were conflicting emotions, pride and sadness, and a struggle for self-renunciation. The Portion of Labor But, for the first time in the history of the world, it preaches self-renunciation, the love of others, equality of mankind, charity and tolerance. History Of Ancient Civilization Because the law of sacrifice is the law of the Savior, man gains life through death and renown through self-renunciation. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service The Schmidts were doing hard service requiring the utmost self-renunciation. Atlantis The pupil has outgrown the teacher; her self-renunciation has become simpler, purer, deeper, more entire than his. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works Purity, self-renunciation, faith, and understanding must reduce all things real to their own mental denomination, Mind, which divides, subdivides, increases, diminishes, constitutes, and sustains, according to the law of God. Retrospection and Introspection Antony, in another part of the same country, guided by a mistaken spirit of self-renunciation, divested himself of all his property; and also retired into a wilderness. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Of this great company, what can we say save that they won renown through self-renunciation! The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service But the suggested virtue of 'self-renunciation' only made me smile, because it is simply nonsense ... nonsense which proves itself to be nonsense at a glance. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 If self-renunciation has so many claims for you, who prevents your carrying it into private life? What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader Ceaseless toil, self-renunciation, and love, have cleared its pathway. Retrospection and Introspection But in his self-renunciation he gave her advice that sprang out of his own sorrow and pessimism. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. You may hear the devoted worldling, or the selfish sensualist, giving the highest and most inspiring lessons of self-renunciation, self-sacrifice, and devotedness to God. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends To recognize the poetical faculty of a man, and then to instruct him in 'self-renunciation' in that very relation—or rather, to hint the virtue of it, and hesitate the dislike of his doing otherwise? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 It would be preferred that it should have its foundation in charity, in love, even in self-renunciation, and that, demolishing the material comfort of man, it should have the merit of a generous sacrifice. What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader So with Lizzy: life had taught her; and the one bitter truth of self-renunciation she had wrung out of it must tell itself somehow. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Perhaps the labor and patience and self-renunciation that are necessary to the regeneration of the world are to come from women. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 He feels the calm of self-renunciation, but united with no monkish indolence. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 We will give him a nun, a miracle of all the virtues, a little girl out of a convent, vowed to a life of sacrifice and self-renunciation. Saracinesca Talk away about self-renunciation, for that is beautiful; but at the same time practice a little honesty. What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader He ascribed to me a power of self-renunciation which won his ardent approval and admiration. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Was the self-renunciation of Jesus like that of the ascetics, with their ecstasies and self-punishments? A Short History of Monks and Monasteries But when sacrifice of self is made, in its last effort, equivalent to the sacrifice of individuality, the doctrine of self-renunciation is driven to a vicious extreme. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Margaret looked at him as if he were an accusing spirit,—coming down, as every woman must, from heights of self-renunciation or bold resolve, to an undarned stocking or an uncooked meal. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 And following its teaching, he journeyed through self-renunciation to freedom and communal life, after repentance for his wanderings, expiation and regeneration. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 My brother's chief characteristic was neither egotism nor self-renunciation, but a strict mean between the two. Reminiscences of Tolstoy Margret looked at him as if he were an accusing spirit,—coming down, as woman must, from heights of self-renunciation or bold resolve, to an undarned stocking or an uncooked meal. Margret Howth, a Story of To-day The whole of her books is a suppressed attack on individualism, and an exaltation of self-renunciation as the only force of progress, as the only ground of morality. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Nothing could surpass the intense devotedness of the child of God, except perhaps the self-devotion, the self-renunciation, and the profound humility which distinguished him in the world, and in his conversation amongst men. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 You are inclined, my sisters, to say that we are not all of us capable of such entire self-renunciation, that so supreme an act of self-abandonment is beyond our strength. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales He bore his cross, and it was in this self-renunciation that his power consisted, though many either could not or would not understand it. Reminiscences of Tolstoy He exhibits the love of men and women in all its manifestations, from baseness and folly to the noblest heights of self-renunciation. Robert Browning: How to Know Him Yet she believed most thoroughly in religion, accepted its phenomena, was deeply moved by its spiritual aims, yearned after its perfect self-renunciation. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy On motion of his brother-in-law, the Vicomte de Noailles, the representatives of the nobles, in an outburst of enthusiastic self-renunciation, gave up their feudal rights and privileges. Outline of Universal History Ah!" he said, "what new act of self-renunciation has he made? The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales It is one of the finest instances of true nobility of soul and of absolute self-renunciation that the world affords. Sabbath in Puritan New England Both set forth the conditions of entering the kingdom, which the one declares to be lowliness and trust, and the other to be self-renunciation. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Christ was manifested, as the mystics said with Scripture, in order that the man's personality should die with Him, and imitate Him in self-renunciation. Life of Luther This sort of philosophy attached great value to contemplation and self-renunciation. Outline of Universal History Your life will be one of self-renunciation; but, God knows there are many such! Three Dramas They desired to lose themselves in ecstatic self-renunciation. Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history We have self-renunciation as the condition of entering the kingdom. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke But the practical magnanimity of this Roman, in conquering his passion, throws Polyeucte's self-renunciation, which appears to cost him nothing, quite into the shade. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature His subject was self-renunciation, and he spoke as one who saw the waving palms of the martyrs and heard their shouts of joy. Saxe Holm's Stories Apart from that Wisdom which is inseparable from self-renunciation, there can be no real and abiding peace. The Way of Peace The characters that figure in this second part--most of whom have had their training in the first--form a society whose principle of union is self-renunciation and a life of beneficent activity.... Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam Or perhaps it rather means, If self-renunciation is the condition, who can fulfil it? Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke She throws her whole strength into an attempt to prove that joy is to be found only in strict attendance upon duty and in self-renunciation. Halleck's New English Literature As time passes, we see him degenerate steadily because he follows his selfish impulses, while Romola, whose character is at first only faintly indicated, grows into beauty and strength with every act of self-renunciation. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World She has lofty purposes and aspirations; she is imbued with the philosophy of self-renunciation; her life is devoted to others,--first to her father, and then to humanity. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women Bent on evil, or good,—self-renunciation or self- aggrandisement,—it is still of One Mind! Temporal Power His seeming forgetfulness of the past and cordiality in the present did more than reassure, it deeply touched and completely won a man who was himself capable of magnanimous self-renunciation. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 The young man's noble disposition was more easily led in the direction of chivalrous self-renunciation, than towards an end involving personal advantage. Greifenstein She arose stiffly and drew back into the darkness, out of the dim, starlit path, and standing there with her head high, her arms outspread, she made her solemn vow of self-renunciation. Viola Gwyn She makes the religion of the Florentine reformer to harmonize with her notions of self-renunciation. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women Travelling along the thorny road to self-renunciation, I must not caress my eyes with the ephemeral and illusionary beauty of these charming lilies and roses. The Crushed Flower and Other Stories It seems almost as if he too could have said, in regard to the hardships of art, that the real virtue of the dramatist lies in self-renunciation. Thoughts out of Season Part I Prissie felt glad she was not attired in it that unfortunate day when she sat in Mrs. Elliot-Smith's drawing-room; and yet— and yet— she knew that the poor, quaint, old-world jacket meant love and self-renunciation. A Sweet Girl Graduate I tried to escape from my love by self-renunciation, and tried to devise a joy in the Cossack Lukashka's and Maryanka's love, but thereby only stirred up my own love and jealousy. The Cossacks Such a self-renunciation is not common in England. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women He felt it was shame to him that he could not rise at once to the height of her splendid self-renunciation. The Woman Who Did Oh, yes," said the queen bitterly, "you have been educated in too good a school, and are too thoroughly a Hohenzollern, not to believe in the complete self-renunciation of women. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends Her present situation and lost happiness had changed the young, loving, tenderly-sensitive maiden to the courageous, energetic, and defiant woman, who recognized a future of self-renunciation, combat, and resignation. Old Fritz and the New Era Perhaps it had quickened into life that ennobling spirit of parenthood which is all sacrifice and love and self-renunciation. Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day Whatever the nature of those immature sensations with which, as a girl of twenty, she had accepted her husband, in her feeling towards Miltoun there was not only abandonment, but the higher flame of self-renunciation. The Patrician For it bound us all together, hand in hand; it taught us endurance, self-dependence, and, best of all lessons, self-renunciation. John Halifax, Gentleman Was it wrong of the woman to perform this act of self-renunciation, yielding up all things to love? All Roads Lead to Calvary He half believed it himself; at least, he remembered the nobility of the mother's self-renunciation and its effect upon the two men. A Ward of the Golden Gate For a moment her figure, in its austere, formless garments, seemed to him to even stoop and bend forward in the humility of age and self-renunciation, and she vanished within as into a living tomb. In a Hollow of the Hills |
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