But each altar is individual and apart, and the reaction of this isolation upon the egotistic instincts of the worshipper has been only too evident.
It exists in its coarsest and most childish kind in adventurous freebooters of the type of Napoleon, and in a noble and not egotistic kind in Oliver Cromwell's pious interpretation of the order of events by the good will and providence of God.
The issue was no vulgar one; no merely egotistic interests were at stake.
The worst thing that can be said about Italy of the sixteenth century is that such an analyst as Machiavelli should have been able to idealize an adventurer whose egotistic immorality was so undisguised.
In that period of two years, the least honourable of her political life, the Princess had solely as a stimulant her egotistic and impatient ambition.
He was a strange compound of revengeful morality, malicious forgiveness, ferocious charity, egotistic humility, and a kind of hellish justice.
Dredge was quiet and unassuming, and often allowed Slack to go on with his egotistic gibberish unchecked, which rather encouraged him in his personal weakness.
In England, twenty years ago, we were long since weary of his egotistic buffooneries.
Taking them au pied de la lettre Lady Shelley argues from these scraps of egotistic verse as though they were historic data of unimpeachable authority.
When, later on, he became an egotistic pietist, he imagined that he had renounced the honour for Christ's sake.
With his old egotisticmorality he always regarded the motive of the actor, not the beneficial or injurious effect of the action.
The modified creature at the end of Mr Zangwill was modified too directly by the egotistic element as well as through the romantic action, and this point missed the great defect was missed, and Mr Zangwill spoke only in generals.
Thus by this versatile Lorenzo dei Medici, this flippant, egotistic artist and despot, has at last been broken the long spell of the Middle Ages.
State of soul is, as Doctor Schulze has observed, simply the egotistic human vanity for state of body.
The conviction that all beings are not merely brothers but one and the same essence, is the death of egotistic desire, of the pernicious distinction between me and thee, and the birth of pity, love and sympathy for all men.
The noble Americans are just as egotistic in their dreams as the Austrians.
They can therefore bring it about that a person subject to their influence decides in favor of good conduct in the civilized sense without any ennobling of impulse or change from egotistic into altruistic inclinations.
Today people bring along a certain tendency (disposition) to transform the egotisticinto social impulses as a part of their hereditary organization, which then responds to further slight incentives to complete the transformation.
Thus, for instance, it is worthy of note that all our dreams are governed by purely egotistic motives.
If you think of the past, you will find, perhaps, that I am hard; yet this departure is not an egotistic desertion.
The first was the desire of the appetites, greed and all forms of sensuousness, the second was the desire for a personal and egotistic immortality, the third was the craving for personal success, worldliness, avarice and the like.
He admitted that the conquests of Rome, egotistic ambition, and the long anarchy of the Civil Wars had made the rule of one inevitable.
The early equality and peace and temperance have been lost through a steady growth of greed and egotistic ambition.
Very egotistic and willful in his youth, careless of his affairs, and an imprudent gambler, at thirty years of age he had not yet settled down.
I confess it as frankly as Rousseau, and my Memoirs are not so egotistic as those of that unfortunate genius; but I never committed such an act of folly as I did when I went to Munich, where I had nothing to do.
Another wretched woman has the simple egotistic mania that she has caused the duel.
This also he unlocked on the table, and with the same unerring egotistic eye on of the company saw the words, written in large letters: "Turnbull, James.
Yet his was in no sense an egotistic purpose like that which moved the Popes of the Renaissance to dismember Italy for their bastards.
The Ottimati were egotistic and jealous of the people.
Our temptation is to be egotistic and self-centred; to want to approach God alone with our private needs and wishes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "egotistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
