| 单词 | self-seeking |
| 例句 | “He was intended to reflect a particular kind of privileged, self-seeking, self-interested, ambitious, untrustworthy, unprincipled politician,” said Herron, who attended Oxford University’s Balliol College at the same time as the current prime minister. Writer Mick Herron’s ‘Slow Horses’ are spies for our times 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Caio's emotional and moral anguish gradually exposes the self-seeking superficiality that surrounds him. Ottone in Villa 2010-05-23T21:30:00Z I suspect the play is really an indictment of both generations: the self-seeking individualism of Thatcher's children and their ineffectual offspring, who talk a good ethical game while lacking the capacity for action. Children's Children – review 2012-05-25T11:20:12Z The play was a savage satire on England, depicting the ups and downs of a self-seeking Midlands family. In pictures: The career of Roger Lloyd Pack 2014-01-16T13:54:55Z The critics see the civic bonds that Lasch believed were fraying threatened anew by an epidemic of individualistic, self-seeking, and self-promoting behaviors especially evident among the young, the most narcissistic generation in history. Lay off Kim and Kanye! Why millennials actually aren’t “Generation Me” 2014-04-06T15:00:00Z Perhaps Ms. Bailey intends to underscore the idea that the lure of power brings out the same shallow, self-seeking beast in all men. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z Active resistance is necessary because it is the moral and political indifference of demoralized, self-seeking citizens that normalizes despotic power. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Nuttall reminds us of democracy’s freedom to commit suicide, but Shakespeare seems to retain a modicum of faith in the fickle, self-seeking and, yes, chronically ill-informed citizenry. The theater of Trump: What Shakespeare can teach us about the Donald 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The Xis and Putins of the world mock us, all the while knowing that the self-seeking simpleton in the White House will “make deals” with them on his own behalf. Opinion | Trump’s betrayal of American greatness 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z It claims that environmentalism is a self-seeking scam, doing immense harm to the living world while enriching a group of con artists. How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and the far right? | George Monbiot 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z And it’s not because of him, it’s what he represents — that enormous core of self-seeking, discriminating, angry, racist people in the United States.” ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ star Ed Asner says cast was like a family: ‘We forgave each other’s faults’ 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Malema, the former head of the African National Congress Youth League, was first a protégé of Zuma’s and then an antagonist, railing against Zuma’s “self-seeking greed” and calling him a thief. Who Owns South Africa? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z But a federal lever can offset the self-seeking forces of NIMBY-ism by giving city and state governments a strong incentive to cut the red tape that keeps housing supply lagging so far behind demand. Analysis | How 12 experts would end inequality if they ran America 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Dictionary.com defines sycophant as “a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite,” and provides “toady, yes man, flunky, fawner” and “flatterer” as acceptable synonyms. Dictionary.com calls Mike Pence a ‘sycophant’ for Trump 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The social democratic story explains that the world fell into disorder – characterised by the Great Depression – because of the self-seeking behaviour of an unrestrained elite. George Monbiot: how do we get out of this mess? 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Last year millions of Filipinos, weary of a corrupt and self-seeking political elite, elected a maverick, blunt-speaking mayor from Mindanao as president. Philippines conflict: Starving residents tell of terror in Marawi - BBC News 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Mishra’s Voltaire is a self-seeking capitalist entrepreneur, because, among other things, he established a watch factory at Ferney—as a refuge and asylum for persecuted Protestants. Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z WK: As a musician I’m incredibly selfish and self-centered and self-seeking. Jail Guitar Doors program brings rock ‘n’ roll to help rehabilitate prisoners 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z There is an assumption, in both campaigns, that we are self-seeking creatures, rather than also loving, serving, hoping, dreaming, cooperating creatures. The death of idealism 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z The Panamanian state was originally created to function on behalf of the rich and self-seeking of this world – or rather their antecedents in America – when the 20th century was barely born. How a US president and JP Morgan made Panama: and turned it into a tax haven 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z It will be paying special attention to crimes including dereliction of duty, power abuse and self-seeking malpractice, according to Xinhua news agency. Henan nursing home fire due to 'poor construction' - BBC News 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z They were fearful, envious, forgetful, rash, doubtful, arrogant, self-seeking and slow to understand. REBECCA HAGELIN & KRISTIN CAREY: Leadership over self-interest brings great rewards 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Amid the self-seeking people at the magazine — with many hands on a greasy pole of advancement composed of book sales, cable segments and cocktail chatter — the making of war is just one more career opportunity. Michael Hastings’s ‘Last Magazine’ Shows War as Career Opportunity 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z He says China's strategy is self-seeking, preying on a "vulnerable Greek economy" to reap the benefit. Can China lead Greece out of darkness? 2013-09-09T00:57:02Z "The emails indicate to me that whatever information they got was distorted, mostly self-seeking and misleading." Bridge to better growth for Bangladesh 2012-09-23T15:45:37Z All would have gone well, says Louis Blanc, had not the wicked Thermidorians, on the occasion of Robespierre's fall, brought in a policy of vice and self-seeking instead of one of virtue and brotherly love. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z The civil order, as now established in the south of France, evidently rested in the religious order, and the maintenance of this required hands more vigorous and watchful than those of the self-seeking prelates. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Consider the long list of servants and retainers with their stiff-necked devotion and their incorrigible self-seeking. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Like Legge, Richmond was free from all self-seeking, honourable, upright, irreproachable, both in public and in private life. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z Achish must have been struck with the utter absence of treachery and of all self-seeking in David. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z Never was such a time of dreams and madness and fussiness, of splendid aspirations and silly self-seeking vanity, of chivalry and daring, and true wisdom and nonsense. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z His attitude to the Church of England at large was one of admiring loyalty, but he had no self-seeking thoughts. Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography 2012-03-28T02:00:25.040Z In like manner the mixture of devotion and self-seeking in that quaintest of followers, Richie Moniplies, is worth a thousand false idealisations. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z He attacked the clergy for their wealth, their self-seeking, and their subservience to the pope, and hurled denunciation 475 at the whole body of friars and vendors of indulgences with whom England was thronged. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z The class of qualities that are here marked as offensive to God are pride, self-seeking, self-sufficiency both in ordinary matters and in their spiritual development. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z Bright is sincerely and generously loyal to Gladstone, and is a man as completely devoid of personal vanity or self-seeking as he is of fear. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z There is a subtle self-seeking and self-pleasing even in the way of salvation. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z “The fact is that the high officials are a mere lot of self-seeking curs.” The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Never has the world needed precepts of daring, courage, individualism more than in this age of cowardly self-seeking, and the sleek promises of altruism and its soulless well-being. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Lastly, perhaps soonest in the inferior order, there is fashioned the perception that its self-seeking in its isolated appetites is subject to an abiding authority, a continuing consciousness. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Congress failed to do him justice; his business was attacked by hordes of rivals; it was interrupted by the fire of 1871 and afterward threatened by labor strikes incited by self-seeking demagogues. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z He will not be narrow and self-seeking; he will not be pharisaic and pretentious, practising the world’s ethics with the Christian’s creed: he will be upright and generous, manly and godlike. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Duty was self-denial, not self-seeking under any pretext. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z This act represents a compromise not of principles but of self-seeking interests. The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 2011-12-24T03:07:52.717Z Now, in this matter, and in this view of it, self-seeking and personal gratification are out of the question. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-20T03:00:34.177Z This patriotic sentiment is unfortunately much exploited by self-seeking demagogues and publicists, who rival each other in exaggerating the national pretensions and in pandering to the national vanity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z What are class struggles with their consequent hostilities between groups of the same nation, their coercion and damage, but manifestations of self-seeking, lack of consideration and injustice, that is, of Immorality? Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z The masses of these Dominicans are very patriotic, and would indeed do finely if they were not divided into hostile parties by self-seeking agitators. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z He was ambitious and self-seeking, but unstable and unprincipled, and, lacking the fine qualities of his brothers, excelled neither in war nor in peace. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z When man has achieved this perfect resignation and all tendency to spiritual self-seeking is dead, the September of the soul is come. Ruysbroeck 2011-10-29T02:00:16.413Z His patriotism was untainted by self-seeking; he was courageous in risking his popularity for what his sound judgment showed him to be the right course. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z All misdemeanours and crimes flow from three sources: ignorance, passion and innate, anti-social self-seeking. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Without vanity and self-seeking what are human virtues? Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z It was one of those gracious days when the world seems steeped in peace, when bitterness and unrest and self-seeking "fold their tents like the Arabs, and as silently steal away." Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Many were ready to accuse him of self-seeking in his desire to conciliate the party of privilege. Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada 2011-10-14T02:00:23.300Z When events justified his foresight, some were found who cherished the notion that Lincoln was guided by self-seeking motives in his radical advocacy. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z I must invoke thee for my spirit's good, And prove myself un-guilty of the crime Of mere self-seeking, though with this imbued. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z Mingled Feelings.—Towards science women and self-seeking artists entertain a feeling that is composed of envy and sentimentality. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z She had not been like this, cunning and self-seeking, to start with. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Laura Wyron was quite right: by the time they had grown up the fogs of cowardice and prejudice and self-seeking would have disappeared for ever. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z The fraud, the worldliness, the self-seeking is thrown off like a slough. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z The state which was most self-seeking in its railway politics was Hanover, which separated the eastern and western parts of the kingdom of Prussia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z As long as these self-seeking disciples sought only their own glory, Christ could not give them the askings of their ambitious hearts. In Answer to Prayer The Touch of the Unseen 2011-09-23T02:00:24.177Z Then quite at one end of the room and grouped about the chairman’s table sat the whites; school and Agency employees, traders, soldiers, ranch neighbors; an indifferent, 110 self-seeking, heterogeneous group. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z The latter uses it with a sarcastic intonation, as if it implied much cry and little wool, loud professions and small performance, not without a touch of hypocrisy and crafty self-seeking. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z What a vast assemblage, what a glorious companionship is that in which you and I, with our frailties, our shortcomings, our self-seeking, our worldliness, our distrust, our faithlessness, are fain boldly to claim a place! Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z Then, when their essential factiousness and self-seeking had become manifest to the world, he struck his blow. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Robert’s zeal, like the zeal of many conscientious objectors to the self-seeking of others, placed him beyond the proscribed limits of profiting through Mrs Chadwick’s generosity. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z But it is a great self-seeking world he has to face, full throughout of thwarting circumstance. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z She was a match for the self-seeking sophomore. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z Evidently this was directed against the self-seeking of the Roman government. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z And perhaps the author of the Potiphar Papers is in his way quite as characteristic of New York as any of the more self-seeking notorieties who din into our ears the catalogue of their merits. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z The worms of arbitrariness, disorder, self-seeking have so gnawed the trunk of that Commonwealth, that under the axe of civil war the rotten wood is scattered, the dry limbs fall from the tree. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Napoleon and Gordon were unlike in many ways, and the gigantic self-importance and self-seeking of Napoleon were absent in the simpler and finer character. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z It was galling to the ambitious, self-seeking sophomore, but she loftily ignored Natalie’s frigidity. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z The Provost, in which Provost Pawkie tells his own story, portrays inimitably the jobbery, bickerings and self-seeking of municipal dignitaries in a quaint Scottish burgh. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z But "the gay, licentious, proud," the pleasure-loving, self-seeking aristocracy, and the brutally ignorant rural population, must entirely paralyze the intelligent, an honest few scattered in their midst. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z The worst enemy is not Hmelnitski, but internal disorder, waywardness of the nobles, weakness and insubordination of the army, uproar of the Diets, brawls, disputes, confusion, weakness, self-seeking, and insubordination,--insubordination, above all. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z The bishops of this reign were as a body, though with some exceptions, worldly and self-seeking. The English Church in the Middle Ages 2011-08-01T02:00:14.773Z She had quickly sensed Lola’s lack of interest in herself, immediately topped by self-seeking. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z Ambition, self-seeking, self-confidence, have throughout the history of Christendom been the most serious defects of the strongest characters. The Making of an Apostle 2011-07-26T02:00:19.187Z "And no more sacrificing the country to self-seeking demagogues." The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z It is plain that the rich, charitable, worldly prosperous, self-seeking, Frankfort, would be your chosen residence after all! Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z There occasionally they took meals, though it was regarded as a sign of luxurious self-seeking to avoid the formality and bustle of the meals in the great hall. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z He is not the agent of any selfish State, or self-seeking community. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z He was a willing instrument whom God could use because self-seeking was entirely banished from his motives and desires. The Making of an Apostle 2011-07-26T02:00:19.187Z In the present state of universal selfishness and self-seeking, the elementals would be employed to work evil, as they are in themselves colorless, taking their character from those who employ them. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z The Russian leaders were self-seeking, and the Tsar and his advisers were lacking in ability and force. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z Unscrupulous, self-seeking as he was, Vipan had his own code of honour, and he would no more have dreamed of betraying his friend’s confidence than of cutting his friend’s throat. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z Finally, the highest degree of union and contemplation is attained by the hidden sons, who are utterly divested of all self-love and self-seeking, and whose life is hidden with Christ in God. A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 2011-06-14T02:00:22.820Z This self-seeking, this self-elevation, is directly opposed to the spirit of the Gospel, which demands that every one seek not his own, but the things which are another’s. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Ministers followed the example of their self-seeking masters, thinking it no shame to accept pensions from foreign sovereigns. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z There are undoubtedly very many selfish and purely self-seeking women, who starve the atmosphere about them; but as a rule the beauty of true unselfishness is oftener found adorning the female character than the male. Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z Do you need me to tell you of the wretched, self-seeking leaders of the working men? The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z For it is my opinion that prayer should always be for spiritual good only, in order that our religion should be pure from self-seeking, and generously self-forgetting in its aspirations for perfection. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z He had escaped the bonds of human kind and the sufferings of self-seeking nature. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z Merovingian justice was on the same footing as Merovingian finance: it was arbitrary, violent and self-seeking. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Preparation to do the work of the Church can be the only form of self-seeking, and that may or may not lead to any particular position in the Church. A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-14T03:01:04.693Z He could not longer bear the thought of self-seeking. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z To have remained in the midst of it all simple, earnest and faithful to duty, without self-seeking, is a triumph worthy of recording, and makes a career well deserving of emulation. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z There was enough in this room to prove to her how cruelly mere self-seeking can overreach itself and ruin what it tries to build. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Could it be greedy and self-seeking financial institutions that wrecked the economy? Letters: The crisis and cuts are Labour's fault 2011-02-28T00:04:02Z All at once he sees behind him the frightful danger of this self-seeking pain. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Until he knew that, where was the sanity of statecraft, the excuse of any impersonal effort, the significance of anything beyond a life of appetites and self-seeking instincts? Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Thanks to nature for intolerance, for envious and emulous self-seeking, for the insatiable desire to have and to rule! Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century 2011-02-09T03:00:48.103Z There is no circle in Rome more free from self-seeking on the part of its members, or more at variance with such a feeling. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z They treat of personal friends whose interests lay neither in the Court nor in the Senate, and whose aims had no taint of self-seeking. Glimpses of King William IV. and Queen Adelaide In Letters of the Late Miss Clitherow, of Boston House, Middlesex. With a Brief Account of Boston House and the Clitherow Family 2011-01-28T03:00:23.733Z His most frequent type is the smooth, oily, self-seeking hypocrite. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z They are self-seeking persons, whom this sacrament does not benefit. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z In many neighbourhoods he is peculiarly at the mercy of this lower class white electorate, and the self-seeking politicians whose stock in trade consists in playing upon the passions of race-hatred. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z In short, the whole life of the children of this generation consists of the love of the world, self-love, self-honor, and self-seeking. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z He was accused of an undue and culpable jealousy of Jackson, of self-seeking, and of perverse disobedience of orders. Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. 2010-12-20T17:12:28.183Z In Congress, Byrd once denounced civil rights leader Martin Luther King as a "self-seeking rabble rouser." Senate gives rare honor to legend Robert Byrd 2010-07-01T22:50:00Z In Congress, Byrd, who denounced civil rights leader Martin Luther King as a "self-seeking rabble rouser," eventually became a leading backer of civil rights. Senator Byrd dies at 92 2010-06-28T09:52:00Z The government, he complained, is "a self-seeking flea on the backs of the more productive people of this world … governments do not run countries, they parasitise them". This state-hating free marketeer ignores his own failed experiment 2010-05-31T19:00:00Z If, after an earthquake that devastated rich and poor neighborhoods alike, Haiti’s political and business élites resurrect the old way of fratricidal self-seeking, they will find nothing but debris for spoils. 2010-01-19T13:16:00Z The answer is simple: Because he loves his neighbor as himself–because he actually does, without self-seeking or any pious pretence. Higgins A Man's Christian My dearest Magda, I am neither self-seeking nor a fortune-hunter, but I know what is due to myself and to my position. Magda A Play in Four Acts The whole tissue, woven of laughing selfishness and self-seeking affability and mock na�vet�, now fell away, showing the being he had humbly worshipped in her naked unreality and insincerity. The Undying Past The self-seeking fleas agreed to his request, and in September the government opened a support facility for the floundering bank. This state-hating free marketeer ignores his own failed experiment 2010-05-31T19:00:00Z His wife, he knew, was seldom wrong in her calculations; Scott was an old wolf, who never hesitated to make honesty subserve his policy, and with him policy was only another name for self-seeking. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 He died as he had lived—self-seeking, unsympathetic—a commonplace old man. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise He knew me at once, and bade me get out of his sight for an arrant self-seeking miser that would keep a shivering man from a good glass of toddy at his own fireside! Deep Moat Grange And let me assure you of this; that in making this proposition to you, I am not self-seeking. Rachel Ray Education in the past set out to make a Christian and a citizen and afterwards a gentleman out of the crude, vulgar, self-seeking individual. The Salvaging Of Civilisation Cuba was thus deprived of some of its most useful citizens, while its important public offices were filled with self-seeking politicians. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 With the most refined self-seeking, he had desired the highest for himself; and at last, regardless of himself, he gave himself up for the public weal and the lowest. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. It means a battle against selfishness and self-seeking—a battle long-drawn-out. Victory out of Ruin There is the sound of shouting, but it is the shouting over the triumph of one self-seeking politician over another self-seeking partisan. The Great Discovery My poor boy would be lost in that great ocean of world-liness and self-seeking. Tony Butler In the first place, there is national chauvinism, to which the existence of a law of nations is hateful, and which represents unlimited national self-seeking. The Future of International Law The object itself was not self-seeking save in so far as she stood identified with the cause which she championed. The Great Miss Driver Something of the atmosphere of home will cling to office-walls, and soften the sharp outlines and sweeten the unfragrant air of perpetual traffic and self-seeking. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 He is more congruous grown, Holding a subtler plan to make the world his own By organised self-seeking in the paths of power. Satan Absolved Within the Church itself there was not only an unholy traffic in preferments, but he found his fellow clergy, curates, rectors, bishops at war among themselves, self-seeking, greedy for power and money. John Marsh's Millions Man therefore, like the animals, is purely self-asserting and self-seeking. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The rural movement has been brought to its present state without any demand for special privilege, without bolstering by factitious legislation, and to a remarkable degree without self-seeking. The Holy Earth Sophie was enraged at the personal motive ascribed to her, but still more at having a devoted and unselfish union man called by a name used to describe self-seeking climbers. The Shadow Whom can we trust in this self-seeking age! A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Alas for the best and purest! what an alloy of meanness and littleness, what vanity and self-seeking mingle with their very noblest and highest efforts. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience In other words, the limit of any finite creature, that which makes it finite, lies without it, and its own existence, so far as it goes, must be pure self-assertion and self-seeking. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The conquest of self-seeking egoism is the most important task of education; for selfishness isolates the individual from all communion, and kills the life-giving principle of love. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 If we want to be wise in winning souls and to be vessels meet for the Master’s use we must get rid of the accursed spirit of self-seeking. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians Apart from matters of faith, the church had fared ill under a royal supremacy exercised by self-seeking nobles in the name of the boy-king. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" Roman frugality and gravity, Roman citizenship and patriotism, Roman purity and piety, were driven away by Greek luxury and levity, Greek intriguing and self-seeking, Greek vice and infidelity. Lectures on The Science of Language Or, to put the same thing in ethical language, Spinoza teaches a morality which is in every point the opposite of asceticism, a morality of self-assertion or self-seeking, and not of self-denial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Never have rulers been less self-seeking than we have been in our Asiatic empire. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses There is hardly any movement of reform to-day that has not been in danger of being thwarted and destroyed through this miserable spirit of ambition and self-seeking. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians Doumer was far more brilliant and vigorous, but was accused of self-seeking and was thought a less safe person to elect. A History of the Third French Republic It is in self-seeking and advancement that we narrow our faculties and imprison our natures. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance His self-assertion and self-seeking are therefore confused with the asserting and seeking of other things, and are never pure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" In the brief record of his service he referred to some of the self-seeking governors, and told of their rascally deeds. The Book of Courage These two characteristics, self-giving and self-seeking, are among the most potent factors in the development of all the races of mankind. Oriental Women Bazaine was a brave soldier, but a poor general-in-chief, and withal a self-seeking man, incompetent to deal with the difficulties in which France found itself. A History of the Third French Republic With what hauteur the latter expresses herself concerning "the self-seeking crowds who throng about those who hold great places"! Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty All of which goes to show that there is less of material self-seeking in feminine worship than in that of men. Roman Women Sloth and self-seeking from us cast, Believing this the fittest fast, For of all prayers prayed 'neath the sun There is no prayer like work well done, Miserable sinners! Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) From the earliest days, this care for the infant, the helpless, and the weak has been the most powerful counterpoise to abnormal self-seeking. Oriental Women "There is an earnestness in high purpose no self-seeking could ever counterfeit." Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Selfishness and self-seeking is the spirit of the time, and its chilling poison has infected womanhood, and touched even the sacred principle of maternity. Maids Wives and Bachelors With her shapely knees and low-cut neckline she was a pleasant change of scenery from the procession of self-seeking middle-agers I had been interviewing—not that her motive was any different. Breeder Reaction It was, like the absorbing rest, immaterial, the negation of ordinary aims and ideas of comfort and self-seeking. The Bright Shawl To seek the origin of religion in fetichism is as vain as to seek the origin of morality in the selfish and self-seeking tendencies of man. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion It was in this way that he saw the formality of the Pharisaic party, and the self-seeking of scribe and chief priest. Training the Teacher She, the most unselfish and considerate of women, was given over, as it were, to an avenging spirit, which upbraided her with faults never committed, and exacted expiation for imaginary crimes of selfishness and self-seeking. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind Strafford was a "rancorous renegade"; Swift a sort of gifted Judas; Bacon a mean fellow with a great intellect; Dryden again a renegade, though not rancorous; Marlborough a self-seeking traitor of genius. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Quite enough, too, for quick, trustful prayer that our singing may be kept free from that wretched self-seeking or even self-consciousness, and kept entirely for Jesus. Kept for the Master's Use In a court degraded by licence and self-indulgence, he maintained his self-respect and personal dignity regardless of consequences, and in an age of almost universal corruption and self-seeking he preserved a noble integrity and patriotism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" If this occurs they weaken, the impulse to take the right stand lessens, and irresolution finally becomes the tacit choice of the self-seeking life. Training the Teacher Free from any taint of selfishness or self-seeking, all her thought was for others, for the helpless, the poor, the friendless. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind "Sir," Abner broke forth hotly, "do you mean to insinuate that I have self-seeking motives in wishing to marry your daughter?" Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge There is nothing quite so discomposing as the scornful rejection of proffers of self-seeking philanthropy. The Blue Goose The selfish rôle of a martyr is the shift of a dishonest mind, nothing short of self-seeking; and real suffering would stop the farce. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 Somewhere there is a fault, it would seem, somewhere in my abandon is restraint, in my love, self-seeking. The Kempton-Wace Letters Nowhere else has knowledge, supposedly impartial, consciously or unconsciously placed itself so unscrupulously at the service of ambitious and self-seeking politicians. The Forerunners He is bad, greedy, covetous, self-seeking, a very dog, and by the living God he shall die like a dog unless you will free me from his fangs. Lady Anna Too much self-centred and self-seeking, they make little or no sacrifice for others. The Defects of the Negro Church The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 10 Here, once free of Cleopatra's presence, he becomes his old self, a reveler, yet diplomatic and self-seeking. An Introduction to Shakespeare This first move of this much-hated man in the Revolution savored of intrigue and self-seeking–as did most of his other public acts. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga But just as we to-day know well how hard it is to draw the line which distinguishes a right self-seeking from the wrong, so it has been from the outset. God and the World A Survey of Thought This sin usually has its rise with certain haughty, conceited, self-seeking leaders who desire peculiar distinction for themselves and strive for personal honor and glory. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent What stands in their way, stands in our way; social disorganization, individualist self-seeking, narrowness of outlook, self-conceit, ignorance. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism But when all is done, to have achieved this artistic perfection of self-seeking is a sorry account to give of life. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 In maternal love there is nothing self-seeking, it is pure benevolence, giving, continuous giving, of time, of thought, of body labor, of sleep, of everything. The Broom-Squire I am not a philanthropist, I suppose; but most of the philanthropists I have known have seemed to me tiresome, self-seeking people, with a taste for trying to take everything out of God's hands. The Thread of Gold The least self-seeking of drowning maids might expect the hero on the bank to pull her out of the water. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Here was something that the self-seeking merchants could understand. Pathfinders of the Great Plains A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons She was then a vain, self-seeking little damsel, affectionate and uncorrupted, with an empty head, indeed, but an innocent heart. Name and Fame A Novel He had no self-seeking ambitions, and on three occasions preferred not to become prime minister. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Now, however, he concluded after inquiry that Selkirk was neither irrational nor self-seeking, and advised that the accusations against him should not be brought into the courts. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba Once he discovered this he never let them alone, and the deck resounded with his denunciations of all Protestant missionaries as "self-seeking, oily humbugs." Jan and Her Job Such men are essentially selfish; even their service is self-seeking and deserves no honor from others. The Social Principles of Jesus Now both self-seeking and vanity were being scourged out of her by force of the love which she had learnt to feel. Name and Fame A Novel And he starts to murder us by giving what the most ignorant, unthinking, unpatriotic, self-seeking people in the country have asked for, and swears that because they ask they must have. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule You call me a self-seeking fanatic, but if I be that, why are you yourself silent? Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark But now the voice broke in again, apologetic, solicitous, self-seeking. Hidden Water Finney was a modest, earnest, faithful man, attentive to his duties, not self-seeking, but contented with his lot and ambitious only to do a man's part. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War And so, on a salary that would have meant penury to a man of self-seeking tastes, he managed to save always the major part of his earning. In a Little Town It linked that time with this, as Madame Beattie, in her unabashed self-seeking, linked it. The Prisoner Kingo was accused of being greedy, vain, over-ambitious and self-seeking, all of which probably contained at least a grain of truth. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark Who would want to have anything to do with grown-up people, with their larger selfishnesses, more developed self-seeking—robust jealousies and full-grown exactions and sophistications, when they had a beautiful little one like that? The First Violin A Novel Horace; biographical note on, X, 58; the fatality of self-seeking in editors and authors, 58.Green, The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index Not sophisticated, not self-seeking, not watched over and set like a man-trap in the path of men, but a sweet little girl—sweet as a flower, who was without anybody, apparently, to watch over her. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel Nor did his complacency diminish when his intuition proved correct, and the preacher thundered against the self-will—ay, and the self-seeking—that undermined Israel's last fortification. Ghetto Comedies What good would such a work, undertaken in a selfish, self-seeking spirit, do them? Our Bessie He had their loyalty as their sovereign, but the spiritual and cultural welfare of a colony overseas carried little weight amid the political cross-currents and the self-seeking of a royal court. Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers Start the day with this thought, 'I will live this day without discontent, without self-seeking, and without anxiety.' A California Girl How much we have cause to be humble for! the constant cleaving of defilement to our souls; and even what is partially good in us, how mixed with imperfection, self-seeking, arrogance, vain-glory! The Mind of Jesus Helen, recognizing the returning tide of his love, to which she related no self-seeking, was radiant. The Light of the Star A Novel But now other interests than self-seeking claim us. What a Young Woman Ought to Know England is self-seeking to the point of insanity, Germany is just even to self-depreciation.—Th. Gems (?) of German Thought So far removed was he from all self-seeking, that he was even unwilling to have the colony bear his name. William Penn Poor Nevil, who was the least self-seeking of men, could not endure any reminder of his elder brother’s real condition of life. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Sagacious, supple, self-seeking, yet not utterly seared, in the last resort he offered up his life for the master he had almost betrayed. A Modern Mercenary The bane of organised labour in the past has too often been the unscrupulous, the self-seeking, or the bull-headed labour leader. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit A large portion of the community have been accustomed to sneer at these ladies as self-seeking and fanatical. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Here, at last, was some one brilliant, stimulating, by no means self-seeking, Quixotic in enthusiasms. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange I—I trust my purpose is pure from vulgar self-seeking? The Dop Doctor "Self-denial, virtuous life, suppression of all self-seeking, love for fellow-men," said he, "are cardinal virtues which bring blessedness to mankind." History of Education Or again by the one afflicted with a species of insanity or criminality manifesting of late under the name of Bolshevism—a self-seeking tyranny infinitely worse than Czarism itself. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit Yet always—always—deep-rooted in the heart and mind of humanity, was this ineradicable belief in the simple act of doing; this half-contempt of the lives content to flutter their little way in aimless self-seeking. The Rhodesian All this can and does progress, but mostly slowly, intermittently, with short violent paroxysms of excess and long sleepy reactions of defect, with one-sidedness, travesties, and—worst of all—with worldly indifference and self-seeking. Progress and History A good man and true, without a trace of anything sordid or self-seeking in his nature, my father was yet singularly indifferent to everything connected with the daily lives and welfare of his fellow creatures. The Message Both are self-seeking, but divination is the more reverent and allies itself more easily with religion. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV He had so long played a game of self-seeking treachery that his present condition came quite easily to him. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies Particular unions and leaders have often pursued mean, short-sighted and self-seeking policies—which have reflected upon the whole movement. The Settlement of Wage Disputes Modern industrialism is cruel and unjust and directly incites men to self-seeking. The New Theology But there were others, the naturally vicious and unscrupulous, the morbid, the craven, the ignorant, the self-seeking; these were the dangerous exponents of the sentiment. The Message Both were men of high character, and both had some attainments; and in their aversion for him, and for his evident self-seeking, they carried a motion forbidding deputies to take office. Lectures on the French Revolution We must admit that the tacit influence of his philosophy has been felt at last, and a self-seeking world has paused in its mad rush to pay him a tribute. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American Would not dancing be included in the entertainments planned by these self-seeking laymen who now approached him? Sundry Accounts The idea so familiar to the self-seeking spirit, that "it is not worth while" to trouble about a passing acquaintance, finds no echo in this hospitable coterie. Through the Malay Archipelago During the campaign of Marengo there had been a knot of active, self-seeking, and traitorous men who, having risen by Bonaparte's help, schemed how best to sustain themselves in case of his death. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) Over wide areas most of their clergy are illiterate, immoral, self-seeking, bitter sectarians, and the most determined opponents of every kind of improvement. From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington Practically all Indian wars have been caused by a few self-seeking men. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American These favours not arriving, he determined to procure through intimidation what his self-seeking fidelity had not been able to secure for him. Political Women, Vol. 1 The old gentlewomen, or caretakers, dry and twisted, brittle and sharp, repositories of emotion—vanities and malice and self-seeking—like echoes of the past, or fat and loquacious, with alcoholic sentimentality, are wonderfully ingratiating. When Winter Comes to Main Street Talleyrand's numberless intrigues, his venality and self-seeking, his cynicism and contemptuous airs, had finally destroyed his preponderance with Napoleon, although he still retained much influence. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) As the source of all defilement of the flesh is self-gratification, so self-seeking is at the root of all defilement of the spirit. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy All motives of time-serving and self-seeking must assail him in vain. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology Madame de Longueville had her own reasons for not being then very severe upon others, but she knew the self-seeking heart of the fair Duchess, and she was alarmed for her brother’s sake. Political Women, Vol. 1 Young folk, and those who never outgrow youth's headlong and blind self-seeking, cannot conceive such truths. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Any selfish desire dominating the mind, in regard to any thing or person will distort the vision and render it misleading, while a persistent self-seeking spirit will effectually shut the door to all revelation whatsoever. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance Any selfish desire dominanting the mind in regard to any thing or person will distort the visions and render them misleading, while a persistent self-seeking spirit will effectually shut the doors upon all visions whatsoever. How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer He was not driven onward by any self-seeking, but drawn onward by a conviction that he was doing the will of God. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God In his general conception of the best way to overcome the Taepings he was necessarily hampered by the views, wishes, jealousies, and self-seeking purposes of his Chinese colleagues. The Life of Gordon, Volume I The measures he wanted put into law had no possible self-seeking in them. The High Calling He is always ready to bless us when we turn again to Him—turn in truth and love, children, not in terror and self-seeking. Her Mother's Secret So the dead languages and their semi-supernatural, quarrelsome, self-seeking heroes passed in review without gaining admittance to the soul of Watt. James Watt To encourage those who come to Him in their own name, or in a self-righteous, self-seeking, and disobedient spirit, would be to set a premium upon continuance in sin. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God If any one has mistaken their import, is it not on account of a self-seeking, money-getting, or slothful disposition? Thoughts on Missions No suspicion of self-seeking stains his fair fame; but ever mindful of his solemn oath, he seeks with clean hands and a pure heart the welfare of the whole country. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Mill was an austere Puritan, who would fell the Tory like an ox and would trample upon the cunning self-seeking Whig. Studies in Literature and History Lord Delaware, the Governor, dying in 1618, Argall became virtual dictator, and under his arbitrary and self-seeking rule the people suffered. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 Nothing, indeed, could be wider of the mark than the notion that a system of political education would increase the number of self-seeking, power-hunting "politicians." The School and the World Brougham's astonishing vanity and self-seeking prompted and perverted his amazing activity. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill It was this, taken together with her magnificent success and her extraordinary prosperity, which caused her to become a cruel and self-seeking woman. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg A more generous fellow, who delighted more in giving, hesitated more in asking, more averse to begging though a friend of beggars, less self-arrogant, or self-seeking, or more devoted to his profession, never lived. Ralph the Heir Its so-called political leaders, who too often are but self-seeking flatterers fawning for its favour, have persistently encouraged it to concentrate its efforts upon getting without giving. Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government They reckoned him their ablest general, though his insubordination and self-seeking rendered the loss of him an actual gain. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration For even this can be distorted into the misery of self-seeking; an ambition not that Christ may be magnified, but that His magnifier may be thought "some great one" in the spiritual life. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians Whatever may be my vanity, or self-seeking, or unmanliness if you will, is not what I say God's truth? An Old Man's Love They illustrate the mingling of sentimentality and statecraft, of viewiness and ambition, which accounts for the strange oscillations of Muscovite policy between altruistic philosophy and brutal self-seeking. William Pitt and the Great War The will, the intention that is a psychological preparation for this mystical experience is a will washed and purged of selfish impulse and self-seeking aims. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries To Haliburton, control by the democracy meant control by the crafty, self-seeking professional politician, as he saw him, or thought he saw him, in the neighbouring United States. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe Your love was only pretty words and pride and self-seeking, and a miserable streak of passion. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy When will the civilities of social life become, through her influence, something beside an exchange of heartless forms, or of self-seeking attentions? The Young Maiden None could lay self-seeking to his charge, nor even the smallest of the many vices which in every order raised their heads, rampant and unashamed. The Justice of the King Just in proportion as self-seeking dies, life begins. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion For these are all forms of self-seeking in disguise. Practical Ethics She never thought of Ruth as self-seeking; merely attributed the measure of success she obtained to cleverness. The Girl Scouts' Good Turn But God's self-seeking, and seeking of his own glory, is his eminent excellency. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning "Is he self-seeking—or is he only a fanatic?" asked Kate. The Tyranny of the Dark Selfishness, whether as self-assertion or self-seeking, is essentially barren and unproductive, both in p. 82regard to the lives of others and our own lives. Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 Officiousness is self-seeking dressed up in the uniform of service. Practical Ethics He forced upon the admiration of a self-seeking world the peace of poverty, the repose of soul which is troubled with no thought for the morrow. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance O blessed self-seeking that gave us a being and well-being; that makes no advantage by it, but gives advantage! The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning He bodied forth the emotional moralist seeking escape from the ferocity of the creed in which his youth had been nurtured, rather than the self-seeking, coldly calculating fortune-hunter. The Tyranny of the Dark There is nothing morally wrong in the self-seeking of the animal. Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 There is generally a good deal of self-seeking on both sides at the basis of such marriages. Practical Ethics He is the only real man in this whole spindling, self-seeking, artificial crowd! The Fifth Ace So vile is self-seeking and self boasting, that all men loathe it in others, and hide it from others. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Bend my will to harmony with Thine, O Lord, and cleanse me of self-seeking. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The self-seeking desire must be felt to be in contradiction to the unselfish dictates of the higher nature. Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 There is nothing more contemptible than that timid, self-seeking virtue which will sacrifice the obvious well-being of others to save itself the pain of breaking a rule. Practical Ethics In short, the wily, self-seeking Bill, who would stop at nothing, probably thought his brother had a screw loose, as the saying is, and perhaps that is what the others thought also. Tom Slade on a Transport How often do men declaim against pride, and covetousness, and self-seeking, and other evils of that kind? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning For he perceived that he must cleanse himself yet further of self-seeking. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Only the man or the woman of a small, personal, self-centred, self-seeking nature is exclusive. In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty Peace vices, the cankers that gnaw a nation's heart, greed, self-seeking luxury, epicurean self-indulgence, hardness to growing ignorance, want, and suffering, indifference to all high purposes, spiritual coma and deadness, these do not disturb him. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It is difficult to retain the memory of the conflicts, miseries, temptations and crimes of men’s self-seeking existence when one is alone with the charming serenity of the unconscious nature. Chance A Tale in Two Parts And why? to pamper the self-seeking wants,650 And prop the hill of these agrarian ants. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry She stands out among the rough, coarse, self-seeking men and women somewhat as Sophy Western does among the personages of "Tom Jones." A History of the Four Georges, Volume II The importance of self, when realised in high and low alike, was becoming self-seeking, indifference to all but self. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus And if anybody in the world is free from self-seeking it is you. Janet's Love and Service It is self-seeking, using the speech and accents of love. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year It is everywhere raising thorny hedges of exclusion and offering human sacrifices to national self-seeking. Creative Unity But, as so often happens, greed and dishonesty, self-seeking and cowardice on the part of high officials, nullified the efforts of the brave seamen who unavailingly gave their lives for their beloved country. A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas In no respect was she self-seeking or self-indulgent. Orley Farm But, oh! lassie, whiles I think the Lord has turned against me for my self-seeking and pride.” Janet's Love and Service Let me sternly shake off some things—all frivolity, easeful indifference, the spirit of haste and self-seeking. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year And what a contempt I have for the virtuous indignation of men who, overmoral themselves, judge haughtily of others; yet, if you look into their souls you discover that they are heartless and self-seeking villains. The Buddha A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes I am a mass of vanity and self-seeking in my own way, but it is a great pleasure to cry down. Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch The lesson on this later occasion was directed to the self-seeking Pharisees and scribes who personified the theocracy, and whose bounden duty it should have been to care for the strayed and the lost. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern But you see my heart was set on it from the very first—guiding or no guiding—and now the Lord has seen fit to punish me for my self-seeking.” Janet's Love and Service Her life had been passed in the performance of home duties, and the cultivation of domestic affections, without any self-seeking or craving after applause. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record The Germans, the Bolsheviks, the British War Office, Our War Department and self-seeking individuals who passed out propaganda, failed miserably in the end. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 With him it equally includes all other forms of wrong, like malevolence and pride and self-seeking. The Chief End of Man The solution to this problem was usually found in the fact that precisely those self-seeking and self-preservation instincts which governed man's activity could not find satisfaction except through coöperation with a group. Human Traits and their Social Significance In this journey I committed many faults of self-love and self-seeking. The Autobiography of Madame Guyon If they are disturbed, then sin has crept in somewhere--self-pity, self-seeking, self-indulgence in thought or deed, sensitiveness, touchiness, self-defence, self-consciousness, shyness, reserve, worry, fear and so on. The Calvary Road But he is true and honest, and affectionate, and is by no means exacting or self-seeking. Kept in the Dark Was Cassius a patriot or a self-seeking politician? Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College Nineteenth-century philosophers attempted frequently to explain how individuals who were natively self-seeking ever came to act socially. Human Traits and their Social Significance The presence of President Wilson did much to maintain the idealism that jostled national self-seeking in the final drafting of the treaties. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. No philanthropic work during the war was more thoroughly free from self-seeking, or prompted by a higher or nobler impulse than that of these Refreshment Saloons. Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience It was a desperate struggle between an ignorant, self-seeking majority and an intelligent, self-sacrificing minority. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Excellent again are Mr. Palmer and his wife; excellent, in their sordid veracity, the self-seeking figures of the Miss Steeles. Sense and Sensibility But as time went on negligence and self-seeking crept in. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria They affect it as a shield or guard against a softness that leaves them the too easy prey of a self-seeking community, and such I adjudged Mrs. Clay. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn The effects of his “Union, it-must-be-preserved” speech were becoming evident; he gradually came to stand for the budding nationality among the self-seeking groups who would have their way or break up the Confederation. Expansion and Conflict Why should the moral consciousness of the higher races accept the principle which places self-sacrifice above self-seeking? Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Their loyalty could be trusted; their knowledge must be the best; on the other hand, governors were apt to be untrustworthy, self-seeking, and ignorant of provincial affairs. Benjamin Franklin Some persons, with a view to objects of their own, take pleasure in representing ministers of religion as more self-seeking and less generous than those who make no religious profession. The Parables of Our Lord There is no false sentiment here; there is no self-seeking. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt There was indeed a ‘needs-be’ in my dear aunt’s former harshness and irritability to me; but for that, and for her disparaging remarks on my conduct, I might have been more self-seeking than I am. Working in the Shade Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping I said something like that to Lorna once, and she was quite shocked, and called it self-seeking and greed for admiration, and all sorts of horrid names. The Heart of Una Sackville A loveless marriage is a catastrophe for any girl, but for Lilias it would mean moral suicide: a deliberate settling down into a selfish, self-seeking life! A Houseful of Girls The brave conduct of the private soldiers fighting steadfastly, without thought of reward or fear of death, impressed the Count, with his knowledge of the self-seeking, ambitious nobles. Heroes of Modern Europe There can never be true friendship without self-respect, and unless soul meets soul free from self-seeking. Friendship Pope and king, bishop and noble, vied with each other in greed, in self-seeking, in lust, in faithlessness, in a pitiless cruelty. History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 Here at least a man is supposed to win promotion by self-forgetfulness and not by self-seeking. Memories and Studies In all this there is nothing of a self-seeking or covetous kind. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation She was a passionless woman, self-seeking but not revengeful, and adopted a certain degree of tolerance, no doubt, from her patriotic counsellor, L'H�pital, who resembled the Prince of Orange in his character. Heroes of Modern Europe How Jesus could expect that twelve faulty, unlearned, self-seeking men, such as His disciples were, would ever be the means of remaking the world, I cannot for a moment see. Sermons on Biblical Characters I have already pointed out that the unselfishness of the children—the complete absence of self-seeking and self-assertion—is one of the most noticeable features of the life of their school. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular In the latter, the same qualities are also prominent, diligence, honesty, bold outspokenness, an ardent desire for the pure, the true, and the natural, and an undisguised enmity to everything false, self-seeking, and vile. The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 If she had put herself foremost in all her thoughts, it had been the unconscious egotism of youth, with no definite purpose of self-seeking. The Colonel's Dream She felt, in some way, how miserable and low and self-seeking she stood beneath him, how high and firm he stood above her, with his calm and disinterested kindliness. Phantom Wires A Novel From what little I have seen of her, she impresses me as a charming girl wholly without experience of a world which, though not altogether wicked, is nevertheless callous and self-seeking. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York Adroit and self-seeking men were often able in the multitude of claims which must necessarily be disposed of by a rapid examination, to impose on Committees of the two Houses. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 This worthy man is as obstinate as only weak men can be; his colleagues, as self-seeking as only French politicians can be. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Attach no importance to self-seeking, rejection, arrogance, oppression and enmity. Bahá’í World Faith 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 We give our money to an institution of charity, and it is said that it was for notoriety, or self-seeking, or at the expense of our kin. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times But he was very easily imposed upon by self-seeking and ambitious men in civil life. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 It has been at all times, with the single exception above noted, a hustling, grabbing, self-seeking race. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers ‘I think he must be like all the curates I have seen,’ she writes of one; ‘they seem to me a self-seeking, vain, empty race.’ Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Not that it was exceptionally ignoble or self-seeking if tried by the standard of the time, but it was altogether commonplace and unworthy of him. Gibbon They were indeed cynical and self-seeking politicians, and devious ploys were their stock in trade for getting and holding power. The Universe — or Nothing He would pardon politicians with whose efforts there was, as he thought, even a mingling of ambition and self-seeking. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 She had to learn that God will not be served with unhallowed fire; that the heart must be freed from pride and self-seeking before it can be fit for the service of the sanctuary. Lucy Raymond Or, The Children's Watchword He had never been heartily accepted by his nobles, many of whom were ambitious and self-seeking, and considered him in the light of a usurper. Roumania Past and Present To understand the game of life is to be prepared, and women like Doris Fletcher were not entirely self-seeking when they presented their best to what they believed should be the best. The Shield of Silence Most were in their prime: hard of face and body, wary, unbridled and self-seeking. The Universe — or Nothing Wheeler had little respect for the devious and self-seeking politics which are supposed to have been needed for success in that State. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 It was pride in the knowledge that he was absolutely free from self-glory or self-seeking. The Crucifixion of Philip Strong She sat there and counted up her joys of life and almost forgot poor Margaret who had trampled hers in the dust raised by her own feet of self-seeking. The Butterfly House “There goes my city church,” he thought, and flung the thought back at himself in anger at his own self-seeking. An Alabaster Box Where refinement is not the result, we may believe that there is a false note in the devotion, that there is self-seeking in the effort toward God. The Zeit-Geist No, under all the self-seeking, the impure motives, the horrid cruelties of life, he must never lose sight of the delicate loveliness, the pathetic aspiration, the exquisite powers of love that are never completely extinguished. Great Possessions Search well your motives, and see that self-seeking has no place in your heart. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister Now in the selfishness of this self-seeking world, our interest in a thing, our judgment of it, does very much depend upon its connection with ourselves. Wych Hazel Her life had been passed in the performance of home duties, and the cultivation of domestic affections, without any self-seeking or craving after applause. Memoir of Jane Austen Never has a greater contrast been shown between self-seeking man and self-forgetful woman. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow Startled to be discovered thus by the blunder of a servant, he met this little vexation with the characteristic effrontery which had served his turn so well in the endless intrigues of his self-seeking career. The Point Of Honor A Military Tale Ida was in reality as innocently self-seeking as a butterfly or a honey-bee. By the Light of the Soul A Novel Butler calls this indifferent or disinterested pursuit; and as much as says, that the wolf is not self-seeking, but sheep-seeking, in its chase. Practical Essays He is dictatorial, calm, incapable of fear, extraordinarily devoid of self-seeking, an embodied theory. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism It is in dealing with this aspect of the case that the view of the statesman dwindles away and is supplanted by that of the self-seeking party manager. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Here the cold harsh brother rises to true nobility, and shows that upon him too life has established its higher claim than that of mere self-seeking enjoyment. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works Somehow or other he had acquired an air of self-seeking egotism, unscrupulousness, which he felt miserably must make him unlovely in certain eyes. The Half-Hearted Such instincts would conform to Butler's notion of appetite: they would be entirely out of the course of self-love or self-seeking of any sort. Practical Essays Do you think that these ideals of service from which every taint of self-seeking and commercialism have been eliminated—do you think that these are mere figments of the impractical imagination? Craftsmanship in Teaching But it is quite possible to be a self-seeking adventurer without being a charlatan. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 In them all the self-seeking of love has no place. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works Here we have unselfish and devoted love, there hard self-seeking. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Whether underneath lay some spot of self-seeking, of the secondary motive from which so few of us are free, matters little or nothing. The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain And that poisoned and corrupted and filled the pulpit with death to Rutherford, in a way and to a degree that nobody but a self-seeking preacher will believe or understand. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents He was certainly a man of genius, and he used that genius to found a political school based on extreme self-seeking opportunism. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 "It was not always the case with me," she replied, "but since I have abandoned all thought of self-seeking, I live the happiest life possible." The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse How is he toPg 219 bring the evil and self-seeking tendencies of his composite nature into conformity with the law and will of God? Matthew Arnold His courage, persistency, and daring stands in marked contrast to the self-seeking opportunism of the great nobles, who afterwards appropriated the results of his endeavours. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Of course, the Bolshevik leaders sought this power for no sordid, self-aggrandizing ends; they are not self-seeking adventurers, as many would have us believe. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy Highly-toned and pure as her spirit was, it shrank from any strain of self-seeking or pride. Elizabeth Fry Deluded as they all were and blinded by pride and self-seeking, the same handwriting that told Belshazzar of disaster was on the wall, but they could not or would not see it. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico Everybody saw that unless the child learned by example and precept the great principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, he was going to remain what by nature we all are,—imperious, demanding, and self-seeking. The Business of Being a Woman His successor, James Founder of Foix, who took the name of Benedict XII., pursued his general policy, though in a more diplomatic and self-seeking spirit. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Why, the privation you now suffer is the work of the Czar and his coterie of self-seeking associates who brought the country to ruin. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy Sometimes it had been illusory love, sometimes ambition, sometimes towering pride and self-seeking, sometimes mere indolent unreadiness, dreamy self-will. Foes Why, if the man of Galilee could be reincarnated the first thing He would attack would be the official expounders of Christianity, with their creeds and formalisms, their temples and their self-seeking. Burned Bridges Presently these disputations died down; what logicians call "the process of exhaustion" settled the question, and Campbell-Bannerman—the least self-seeking man in public life—found himself the accepted leader of the Liberal party. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences Yet few revolutions have ever been conducted with more manifest self-seeking than that which hurled Edward from power. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Times had begun to mend in Ireland from 1850, and had continued to do so until the ballot made the country a prey to self-seeking political agitators. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent His own obstinate and determined self-seeking shamed him. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century Whereupon, recognizing the trend of his thought, the Reverend Wesley Thompson turned upon himself with a bitter accusation of self-seeking, and besought earnestly the gift of an humble spirit from Above. Burned Bridges His tendency was to think—or at any rate to speak and act—as if everyone were as simply good as himself, as transparent, as conscientious, as free from all taint of self-seeking. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences But Philip was only less weary than Edward of the self-seeking pontiff. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Combine and conquer the militarist enemy and the self-seeking imperialists today, once and for all. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? There must be no brutality anywhere, no self-seeking, no ambition, no instability. Paradoxes of Catholicism How gallant a fight Beaton had waged against adversaries how many and multifarious, how murderous, self-seeking, treacherous, and hypocritical, we have seen. A Short History of Scotland Life was a dull round of uncared-for birth, cruel self-seeking, and of death. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky As ever, Montfort held to his personal rights with the utmost tenacity, and the self-seeking obstinacy of the chief negotiator of the treaty caused both bad blood and delay. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Luxury, sensuality, lust, self-seeking, idolatry, ruthless cruelty, and the like were the environment of this man. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII In commonplace words, it was expected then that governments, as against each other, would be self-seeking. Joy in the Morning It was well written, and the truth fearlessly told for the conservative, self-seeking period he lived in. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens He was a silent, morose, dignified, self-seeking man, who astonished Jack with his rabid Toryism. In the Days of Poor Richard And behind the earl were his self-seeking and turbulent sons, set upon building up a family interest that stood directly in the way of the magnates' claim to control the state. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) From the morrow of those first days of high exaltation the two currents ran side by side in Canada: the clear tide of valor and self-sacrifice, the muddy stream of cowardice and self-seeking. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics Anti-slavery men welcomed this revolt of Douglas without crediting him with any but self-seeking motives. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics So averse is she to any self-seeking that it was with considerable hesitation that she consented to express her views to the writer, on the singer's art. Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers He wore a Hindoo robe, let his beard grow like a Yogi ... was irritated with the unimaginative, self-seeking smugness of the grown-ups. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative His self-seeking narrowness gave Pembroke the chance of winning for his middle party a preponderating authority. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) After dwelling on the worldliness, the hypocrisy, the self-seeking of the inmates of Queen's Crawley, how softly but how terribly he scourges them! A History of English Prose Fiction For Columbus carried the chivalrous ideas of the twelfth century into the somewhat self-seeking fifteenth. The Life of Columbus In Jorun we fancy we see the living strength of Christian virtue and devotion opposed to the heathen fierceness and self-seeking of Helga. Sword and crozier, drama in five acts You cannot accuse me of vanity, self-seeking, or ambition at my age, gentlemen. The Ramrodders A Novel He was now entirely under the influence of Alice Perrers, a Hertfordshire squire's daughter, whose venality, greed, and shamelessness made her the fit tool for the self-seeking ring of courtiers. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Sorrow is born of selfishness and self-seeking—our own good, our own happiness, our own glory. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel Under the cloak of religion British administration continued to display its hate against our people and nationality, and to conceal its self-seeking aims under cover of the most exalted principles. A Century of Wrong The members of those families were just a crowd of self-seeking creatures with no thought beyond their own petty interests. The Jervaise Comedy For him the whole body of our industrialism is rotten with selfishness and covetousness, the high note of service entirely absent from it, the one energy which informs it the energy of aggressive self-seeking. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality Many of the nobles were heavily in debt; most of them were self-seeking; offices and emoluments were eagerly sought for, and were even put up for sale. History of Holland Yet the one cold, self-seeking sceptic, the other ignorant, passionate, fanatic idealist. A Wanderer in Holland He may have been self-seeking and vain-glorious, but in his political life self-seeking and vain-glory were elevated by their alliance with higher and wider aims. Daniel Defoe Saints like Ken and preachers like South are replaced by fashionable prelates like Cornwallis, who made Lambeth Palace an adjunct to Ranelagh Gardens, and self-seeking pluralists like Bishop Watson. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham You've got to change a man and bring him out of self-seeking if you really want to make him good. Twelve Men He's not ambitious, self-seeking, a leveller, a demagogue and Jacobin!-he is the man I met beneath the apple tree!' Lewis Rand In the last resort he replied to their hints of his ambition and self-seeking by offering his resignation. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) Each limb of this subordinate machinery, moreover, was a point d'appui for insidious and self-seeking party leaders. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Himself the most exact and precise in his dealings with the world, he could pardon the excesses and irregularities of a great nature; but sordid self-seeking under the mask of high ideals revolted him. Robert Browning All other ways, and especially the Liberty party way, twisted, doubled upon themselves, branched into labyrinths of folly and self-seeking. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist His covert gibes are the spiteful emanation of personal disappointment; his lofty morality is a cloak for unscrupulous self-seeking. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) The working classes are told by self-seeking demagogues that they are in a majority; that the majority is entitled to rule; and that they have only to organize to come into their heritage. Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government Every self-assertion, every form of self-seeking however small or poor, world-noble or grotesque, is a separating and scattering force. Hope of the Gospel There was an element of inertia in his nature, and of the ordinary self-seeking motives which impel men not a trace. John Redmond's Last Years But he was never self-seeking, never cheap, never insincere. 54-40 or Fight For she was of a jealous and self-seeking disposition, and resented any attentions that were not given to her. Patty and Azalea She was quite intricate and self-seeking when she began. Katrine He did not display the least semblance of self-seeking. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 His poems are full, and this in particular is one downright confession, of a generous self-seeking. The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 To have surrendered to an imperative self-denial brings a peace which self-seeking never brought. Carry On Letters in War-Time It is not, however, self-seeking or arbitrary and its ties are within itself. Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado He is actuated by ambition or self-seeking or by love of physical comfort or by physical activity, to obtain the possessions of sense. Cosmic Consciousness Why, Cally, he's about the least self-seeking human being that ever lived. V. V.'s Eyes I therefore made up my mind to eat without scruple, remembering that the gods of the nations are nothing at all, but the fancies of vain dreamers, and the invention of greedy and self-seeking priests. In the Wrong Paradise This would savor too much of self-seeking in the apostle, and providing for his own honor. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London The belief was growing that Seward, Garrison, Sumner and Phillips were something more than self-seeking agitators, and many declared them true patriots. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen He said the character of the "letter was so unique and so different from the many self-seeking and threatening ones he was daily receiving that it came to him as a relief and a pleasure." McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 For, though he was brutal and snobbish and self-seeking and simian, he had a pious and a merry and a grateful heart. The Art of Letters After Puritanism came Charles the Second and the rights of the flesh, which rights were gradually clarified, till they contradicted themselves in the benevolent self-seeking of altruistic hedonism. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Men who have watched our splendid military officers in the field are apt to think that a society which converts such generous souls into self-seeking fribbles must be merely poisonous. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Doubtless there were some in this great conflict who were self-seeking, but this was certainly not the case with Henry Barrington. The Light That Lures They two, from the depths of self-satisfied power, had gone blindly in their paths of self-seeking--till each had awakened the other. Out of the Ashes It means the mixing of ignoble blood with good, a gradual lowering of ideals until a general level of sordidness, individualism in its most selfish and self-seeking form, and political corruption, are the inevitable results. The Conqueror So, disgusted with his self-seeking career, his round of empty pleasures, he, too, is moved by this higher call to abandon his wickedness and devote his genius to the cause of righteousness. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries But even that hallowed hour is disturbed by the disciples' self-seeking disputes. Quiet Talks on Prayer "That is the intention of religion always, my child, to keep the possessor calm, assured, and quite aside from the little jostlings and vexations of a self-seeking life." The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls I saw Cousin Tryphena picturesquely as the Happy Fool of old folk-lore, the character who, through his very lack of worldly wisdom, attains without effort all that self-seeking folks try for in vain. Hillsboro People Good done from any other source or motive is necessarily self-seeking. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics No form of self-seeking is morally more weakening than this quenchless craving, which makes the soul hang its satisfaction on what is utterly beyond its sway, on praise and admiration. Essays Æsthetical Thy virtuous qualities everywhere talked of and exalted, ever reverenced, without self-seeking! why hast thou unexpectedly brought thyself upon some morn to beg thy food for life! Sacred Books of the East And just as womanly purity and innocence quail before unwomanly self-assertion and voluptuousness, so manly loyalty and unselfishness give way before unmanly treachery and self-seeking. Elizabethan Demonology Usually, nothing is more fatal than the success of mere self-seeking. A Young Girl's Wooing He argues against the resolution of all Benevolence into self-seeking, and thus claims for man a principle of disinterested action. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics In the poetical there is always enlargement, exaltation, purification; animal feeling, self-seeking propensity, becoming so combined with the higher nature as to rise above themselves, above the self. Essays Æsthetical May we each with face open, uncovered, all prejudice and self-seeking torn away, behold the glory of Jesus, even though for the sake of our eyes it come as a reflected glory. Quiet Talks about Jesus He came out into the open to fight the good fight of the people to whom courts and cabinets should be servants and not self-seeking masters. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters The people with whom we associate soon recognize the self-seeking spirit, and resent it. A Young Girl's Wooing The friendships for the useful and the pleasant, are not disinterested, but self-seeking; they are therefore accidental and transitory; they do not involve intimate and frequent association. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics Fathers did not then say to their promising offspring, Beware, my son, of self-seeking and shallow speaking, lest you should be consigned to the White House, and be devoured by office-seekers. Famous Americans of Recent Times The ear open to learn, not waxed up by self-seeking plans, or filled with gold dust, heard the voice of divine approval out of the clouds, or in His presence and acts. Quiet Talks about Jesus Joseph Dudley was essentially a self-seeking politician and courtier, like his famous kinsman of the previous century, Robert, Earl of Leicester. The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty When, without any self-seeking, he was placed at the head of the Revolution, he made up his mind that he would carry it through everything to victory, if victory were possible. George Washington, Volume I It has been used much in connection with selfish self-seeking, until that meaning has become almost its whole meaning in the thinking of many people. Quiet Talks on Service I think he must be like all the other curates I have seen; and they seem to me a self-seeking, vain, empty race. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) I suppose it was all self-seeking, and that I must take it meekly as no more than I deserve. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago She turned her face to me,—it was singularly gentle and refined,—not a face to associate with an idea of self-seeking or duplicity. The House of a Thousand Candles Local and provincial affairs under the Roman Empire were administered by a self-seeking corrupt bureaucracy. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History A self-seeking man will turn villain under the encroachment of other people's egotism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 I know a man, says one, who is hard and grasping and self-seeking, and that man makes a religious profession, therefore I will have nothing to do with religion. The King's Cup-Bearer They've left the homes I tried to help them win, they've followed a self-seeking, half-mad, wholly vicious agitator, and their lives, that I meant to have flow on so smoothly, will be troubled and wasted. The Precipice While the principal officers were undoubtedly men of noble purpose, many of the minor officials were just as undoubtedly corrupt and self-seeking. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia Colonial unrest and provincial self-seeking were promoted by conspiracies among Rome's less dependable allies. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History It was from the first a movement from which, as much by instinct and temper as by deliberate intention, self-seeking in all its forms was excluded. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 But, whilst they had not broken the letter of the law, these Jews had certainly acted in a hard, self-seeking way, showing no sympathy whatever for the sorrows of those around them. The King's Cup-Bearer It is a purifying process, an emptying out of all that is worrying, self-assertive, and self-seeking. Mysticism in English Literature In the highest religious ideal, love of God takes the place of fear, adoration that of terror, self-sacrifice that of self-seeking. Primitive Love and Love-Stories He was identified with all that was best in their aspirations, and no shadow of self-seeking had as yet dimmed the brightness of his fame. The Story of Ireland The effects of selfishness and personal self-seeking have nowhere been so wonderfully studied by George Eliot as in this character. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Pride, and love of power, and sordid ambitions, and all self-seeking--for these things, and for them that cherished these things, the kingdom had no place. The Teaching of Jesus The doctrine would only be followed by the prudent and self-denying; it would be neglected by the impulsive and self-seeking. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Who has not observed inferior original power achieving greater results even in the intellectual field itself, where the superior understanding happens to have been unequally yoked with a self-seeking character, over scenting the expedient? On Compromise But the glamour of sentiment had been over it all in those days, and to the passion-warped the high call is transmitted in terms of self-seeking. The Grafters He condemns the pagan teaching she had received, of individual self-seeking, and the spirit of culture, refinement and ease which accompanied that teaching. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy The quarrels, intrigues, and self-seeking that had been so disastrous a feature during the tenure of office of Child, Waite, and Gayer were abhorrent to him. The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago He was, however, never the ungenial, self-seeking, aggressive person some of his foes may have fancied him. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" It would be too harsh to stigmatise such a train of thought as self-seeking and hypocritical. On Compromise No; but there seems to be a pitiful lack of the right kind: men who will put self-seeking and unworthy ambition aside and lift the standard of justice and right-doing for its own sake. The Grafters The Christian idea includes the renunciation of all self-seeking, it bids us give ourselves for others, it even teaches us that others are to be preferred to ourselves. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy If this was in the time of the Social and Civil Wars, of the proscriptions, of increasing crime and self-seeking, we can well understand that the doctrine was popular. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero For many years, from 1882 to 1894, Senator Vest remained the chief defender of a National possession that self-seeking persons in many parts of the country were trying to use for their own profit. The Discovery of Yellowstone Park If there was anything specially detestable to Irving and at variance with his very nature, it was that self-seeking deference to wealth and station which was so characteristic of the Irish poet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Evil consists in the elevation of selfhood, which springs from desire, into self-seeking. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time |
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