Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harrison has shown unfitness and incapacity for the office of President.- [a] His administration has been marked by numerous scandals.- [1] Pensions-[2] Wanamaker and House Postmaster-[3] Cottage by the Sea.- [b] His appointments have been governed by selfish and partisan motives, e. g. Russell Harrison, Egan, Clarkson, Tanner, Leeds; Nation XLVIII, 375, 435. Revival of N. Orleans Carpet-Bag ring, Nation XLIX, 101.- [c] Weak message in Dec., Public Opinion...
...prayer of the heart and the prayer of the hands. Besides our inward supplication to God, we should strive by our own deeds to make the University to which we belong better and nobler than when we found it. College men should lead not merely their own private, selfish lives, but they should live in the broader life of the University, and do their best to keep alive and promote all the higher interests which belong to an institution like Harvard...
...which made his moments of deep sorrow, like the one in the text, all the more intense. The mingling of joy and pain in his life is what all men should expect to find in their own lives and those of their fellows. The gloomy pessimist and the careless, selfish man who turns his back on suffering are the evil extremes. We should be happy, as it is what Christ wishes us to be, but never shirk an unpleasant task or be callous to the cries of suffering. As a man hopes for happiness in a future life...
...unhappy. Some sins come to us from a bad heart and thus leave us in a condition more susceptible to sin than before. Thus it is that there are two lives open to us. We must either live in sprit by loving God or live in the flesh, a selfish existence...
...both. Arnold was convinced, however, that English society he braized too much, and needed men to hellenize, to cultivate the intellect. "The Bible," he said "was not the only book. No man who knew nothing else could know the Bible" Critics of Arnold's system ratner unfairly call it selfish, destructive of religion, dreamy. Yet Arnold does not give one the impression that he was at all times filled with that spirit of sweetness and light to which he has given a name...