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单词 self-seeker
例句 self-seeker
There are other types,—the schemer and the self-seeker, whose matrimonial ventures are only intended to advance worldly interests. Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z
He was no greedy self-seeker, and despised the avenues whereby many of his contemporaries advanced to wealth and position. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z
He had been a self-seeker of that notorious kind that achieves worldly success without much thought for others. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z
Personally Desportes appears to have been a self-seeker and a sycophant; not without good nature, but covetous, intriguing, corrupt, given to base compliances. A Short History of French Literature
The method of the political boss, the aristocrat, the self-seeker, the monopolist—even in the use of thugs, private armies, spies, and provocateurs—differs little from the methods proposed by Bakounin in his Alliance. Violence and the Labor Movement
Since the death of Charles de Buonaparte, the former had been represented at Versailles by Buttafuoco, Choiseul's unworthy instrument in acquiring the island, and now, as then, an uninfluential and consequential self-seeker. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
The Duke of Argyll, soldier, statesman, orator, shrewd self-seeker, represented the Whigs of Scotland; the honest, proud, pompous Duke of Somerset those of England. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I
He has now become a by-word as a hypocrite and a merciless self-seeker. Slain By The Doones
The method that this ancient Jewish self-seeker adopted is rude and unskilful. The Parables of Our Lord
Anger whirled up in me against this miserable, short-sighted self-seeker who had brought to a climax of spoliation my plans to guide the strong in developing the resources of the country. The Plum Tree
The sycophant and the self-seeker bow before quite other idols than of old. Historical and Political Essays
He was of an innocent life, no busy-body, nor self-seeker: neither touchy nor critical: what fell from him was very inoffensive, if not very edifying.  A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers
A self-seeker cannot but be a covenant-breaker: this is a sin you must hate as the very gates of hell. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
But do not come as an amateur, a self-perfectionizer, an æsthetic self-seeker, willing to suck the orange of Association dry and throw away the peel. Life of Father Hecker
They were directed by a lofty and disinterested enthusiasm, without which the most talented man is a mere self-seeker, useless or dangerous to society. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
Most men recognized that he was nothing but a self-seeker, and there were few who trusted him. The Odds And Other Stories
We speak of a self-seeker here, and all the ends of such an one are small, and he himself has not attained the full stature of a man. Lewis Rand
But all self forgetting, know well the law, It's the hero, and not the self-seeker, who's crowned. What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness
A halo of false romance and glory, however, surrounds this crusade, mainly by reason of the associations connecting it with the self-seeker Richard. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)
It was the evident magnanimity of the man, which assured the people that he was no self-seeker who would betray their interests for his own glory or rob them for his own gain. The Americanism of Washington
And the kind of happiness I thus win is one that I estimate far more highly than the happiness which contents the ordinary self-seeker. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I
Montcalm, whatever may have been his shortcomings in some respects, was no self-seeker, and was very properly disgusted with the mal-administration which everywhere prevailed. Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1
The self-seeker will walk into the very abyss protesting himself a practical man, and counting him unpractical who will not with him "jump the life to come." The Elect Lady
This man is an enthusiast—he imagines scores of impossible things—but, at least, he is not a self-seeker—a fool possibly, but not a knave. Lord Kilgobbin
The position taken by Dwight was not that of the self-seeker; he had no gift for turning his love for the art of music into financial results. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis
Burleigh, who misjudged him as a dreamer and self-seeker, not only refused to help him at the court but successfully opposed his advancement by Elizabeth. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World
I will brand you false, a self-seeker, a pretender, a charlatan, a trickster, a rogue. Their Yesterdays
This is not the conduct of the charlatan, not of the self-seeker. AE in the Irish Theosophist
He prayed for their Church; he prayed for their country that it might be made strong and free; he even prayed for the Emperor, the carnal, hare-lipped, guzzling, able Hapsburg self-seeker. Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch
Good ground, even though he was wedded to external life; a self-seeker; a lover of the world? All's for the Best
Prussia's a shuffler, England a self-seeker, Nobility has shone in you alone. The Dynasts
This man whom she had trusted, this peerless champion of her cause, to be nothing but a self-seeker, an intriguer, who, to advance his own ends, had made a pawn of her. Love-at-Arms
He should have remembered the ancient bitter rancour; should have recognized, in the amity of later times, the amity of the self-seeker, and mistrusted it. The Life of Cesare Borgia
Geoffrey was not a truly ambitious man; he was no mere self-seeker. Beatrice
You are all of a kind, rank money-worshipers and self-seeker, or you would not be so ready to see greed in my admiration for Miss Moore. The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair
And Archbishop Leighton, a very different churchman from the bitter author of the Polite Conversations, is equally contemptuous toward the self-seeker in divine things.  Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
If you'll come back with me up the elevator I'll tell him he's a self-seeker and selfish, and with no thought above his own interests. Lion and the Unicorn
If this definition is correct, then every reformer is religious and every self-seeker, though he wear all the symbols of a religion and pray three times a day, is irreligious. The Foundations of Personality
Let me but leave the good name to my three daughters, and that is enough for me; I am not a self-seeker Bleak House
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