It was not to the slow circulation of a few copies, which the rich only could possess, that the aspiring author looked for his reward.
Aspiring to the exalted character of a Christian philosopher, he can never preserve through a single paragraph either the calmness of a philosopher or the meekness of a Christian.
And there we sit in the shade of the porch while aspiring city creatures pluck my poppies and sweat under the brazen sun.
This was the dividing of the ways in the climb of aspiring life.
To renew the Protestant league, to place himself at its head and defy the despot, was more congenial to Maurice's restless, aspiring mind than to play the part of his lieutenant.
But a favorable incident soon after happened, which enabled so aspiring a pontiff as Innocent to extend still farther his usurpations on so contemptible a prince as John.
And when we are in the way of our common life it is possible that the Lord may meet us, and that our souls may be aspiring to Him.
We have the same thought, freed from all its grossness, when we think that the curling wreaths going up from a heart aspiring and enflamed, come to Him as a sweet odour, and delight His soul.
Cepeda, the most aspiring of the court, now that he had failed in his own schemes of ambition, was content to become a tool in the hands of the military chief who had displaced him.
And the West, I have heard from authentic sources, is aspiring in its education after that special cultivation of worldliness.
Its aim should lie in imparting life-breath to the complete man, who is intellectual as well as economic, bound by social bonds, but aspiring towards spiritual freedom and final perfection.
Very seldom in the world had the ambition of an aspiring woman been so suddenly and completely gratified.
If an aspiring and unprotected female cannot receive the support of her own Government, where can she go for it.
From block to block I flitted, like someaspiring bird on the crest of a wave.
On his return, he was received with peculiar favour by the queen, who testified her satisfaction by making him a knight, while she lent a willing ear towards the colonizing schemes Sir Walter opened to her aspiring view.
The glittering, intoxicating generalities of Napoleon attracted his aspiring mind, while the fascination of the Emperor's person strongly moved his heart.
Not my erring, and human will, but thy Will of Wisdom and Love be done on earth as it is in heaven, must be, finally, the attitude of every aspiring soul.
From the bold and aspiring chief was Sir John Maclean of Duart descended.
The death of William the Third revived the hopes of the Jacobite party; and to that centre of attraction the ruined and the restless, the aspiring and the profligate, alike turned their regards.
Her husband was a wealthy planter; but before he gained her hand she gave more than one refusal to an aspiring young fellow whose name I am not free to mention.
A political party, aspiring for control of the Government, may choose a paramount issue, but one in power labors to take care of all interests committed to it.
The Duc de Chaulieu was on good terms with the Grandlieus and promised them to obtain the title of marquis for Lucien de Rubempre, who was aspiring to the hand of their daughter Clotilde.
Saumur accused him of aspiring still higher and wishing to become the father-in-law of a petty duchess of the imperial court.
Above the humble copse aspiring rise, What glorious triumphs burst in every gale Upon our ravished ears!
But if thy proud, aspiring soul disdains So mean a prey, delighted with the pomp, Magnificence and grandeur of the chase; 300 Hear what the Muse from faithful records sings.
He was too much absorbed in study and in his visions of the future, not to struggle with the energy of an aspiring nature against everything that might cling to his steps, or eventually chance to clog them.
Have you nothing to say to a fine young fellow like myself, anaspiring artist, who is, without bravado, worth ten of such?
The vices of young and light minds, the joys of wine and the pleasures of love, never reached his aspiring nature.
What ecstasy of feeling in the artistaspiring through his art to the higher regions of Absolute Beauty in "Abt Vogler" of the poet who loves, aspiring to the divine through his human love in the epilogue to "Ferishtah's Fancies!
This picture of the artistaspiring toward the absolute by means of his large human sympathy may be supplemented by the theory of man's relation to the universe involved in "Paracelsus" as we have seen.
Other states of consciousness reveal to humanity the existence of the absolute, but this gives a premonition of what divine love may have in store for the aspiring soul.
From the earliest times of which we have any record man has been aspiring toward God.
