Octavia requested him to immediately settle up the estate, turning all of Simon's property into money, which he easily did.
She was not a vain or egotistical girl, and the papers' compliments of herself did not "turn her head.
One claimed the privilege of seeing Miss Octavia; the other said he would enjoy that privilege himself, both showing how egotistical they were.
He is genuinely eager to marry, ardent, affectionate, anxious to do right, but lacking in moral courage and egotistical to the point of disease.
Between ourselves, both these two are very self-satisfied and egotistical persons, and I don't think any woman has lost much by their resolve.
This sublime state of the mind is the lot of strong philosophic minds, which by working assiduously on themselves have learned to bridle the egotistical instinct.
We have seen that this pleasure is more energetic in moral souls, and it acts with greater freedom in proportion as the soul is more independent of the egotistical instinct.
For it converts it into desire, but desire is egotistical and insatiable, while admiration is respectful, and is its own satisfaction without seeking possession.
It is a sacred fire that consumes every egotistical inclination, and the very principles of morality are scarcely a greater safeguard of the soul's chastity than love is for the nobility of the heart.
Accordingly this pleasure increases when theegotistical instinct is wounded, and diminishes when that instinct is flattered.
I have said that He was the mostegotistical of men.
And rage took possession of him, the rage egotistical and unreasoning of a man whose health is endangered.
In the first place, he always on principle yielded when one persisted, through sheer egotistical desire not to be disturbed.
I was not egotistical enough to persuade myself that love of Country and loyalty to my King were the sole motive powers of my Resolve.
It did affect the business that they all argued badly and were egotistical in their manners and inconsistent in their phrases.
I suppose the world is just all egotistical children and broken-in people.
Generally speaking, he is a stout man with the walk of an egotistical pigeon.
It was borne in upon me that I must have a shallow, egotistical nature.
She would set forth to him elaborately how much he had improved; how much gentler and more human he was--in contrast with that blind and stupid and egotistical and impossible person she had first known.
He grows more egotistical and more contemptuous every day, and I cordially dislike him.
Egotistical lovers can hold hands for hours [Pg 166] and chastely kiss each other for years; such tokens of affection help to keep them in love and at the same time are a sop to more troublesome impulses.
The postulates that were intended to save the Kantian philosophy from egotism are the most egotistical part of it.
But all such questions [Pg 89] are excluded when one understands that this philosophy is only a point of view: the world it describes is a vista not separable from the egotistical perspectives that frame it in.
It follows from his egotistical principles that in judging others he should be officious and rude, learned and mistaken.
The egotisticaldoctrine that the whole universe is but the image of it created by the mind disappeared altogether in his system.
The momentum of his transcendental method, however, led to a very different and quite egotistical conclusion.
The sympathy Goethe felt with things was that of a lordly observer, a traveller, a connoisseur, a philanderer; it was egotistical sympathy.
That way of speaking is scholastic; but the thought, if we take the egotistical point of view, is deep and true.
The more hearers they have, the more egotistical the couple become, and the more anxious they are to make believers in their merits.
It not only appeared that the egotistical couple knew everybody, but that scarcely any event of importance or notoriety had occurred for many years with which they had not been in some way or other connected.
He would invade the session without notice, and favour its members with lengthy and egotistical monologues, frequently quite irrelevant to the matter in hand.
That bracing up was only a part of the large egotistical schemes that dominated him.
She is a great addition and enlivenment to the dull egotistical Roman society, and is brimming with good intentions and high aspirations, many of which she is really able to carry out.
There was no downright malice (as a rule) in Granville; he was merely egotistical and vain; he merely loved more than most things the sound of his own voice.
So also in love or in science, it would be egotistical and affected to gloat on our own ideal, turning our backs on the adorable person or the natural process before us.
This environment has been called the unknowable, the unconscious and the subconscious--egotistical and absurd names for it, as if its essence was the difficulty we have in approaching it.
Competent contemporaries judge him perfectly, much better than posterity, which is composed of critics no less egotistical and obliged to rely exclusively on documents easily misinterpreted.
But the social impulses themselves came into being through the union of egotistical and erotic components into special entities.
Stevenson of old Edinburgh days was a conceited, egotistical youth, but a true and honest one: a youth full of fire and sentiment, protesting he was misunderstood, though he was not.
And now, strange to say, he felt that he COULD but WOULD NOT; and he was overcome with remorse and penitence for theegotistical nature of his own appeal.
I have always to tone down the egotistical part of it a little, especially with authors, for if I were to write out exactly what THEY separately say of their contemporaries, it would be simply frightful!
But she had never minded anegotistical man, at least not when he had something about which he had a genuine reason to be egotistical.
His own nature and the position in which he stood to the ideas of his time caused genius, as he knew it, to seem merely a source of lonely suffering, or of wild, egotistical pleasure, marred by the feeling of its emptiness and worthlessness.
Still less is it theegotistical despondency to be found in so many of the male writers of the day.
Coming away from a great house, how often she and I, egotistical philosophers, thanked our fates that our own home was a small one!
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