These religious men, however, might have had their motives for setting this wonderful people in the fairest point of view.
The author of the Annals, surpassing Tacitus with respect to the moral world, wrote as he did, from knowing better the motives that influence men's minds, and the passions that sway their hearts.
He could not have been actuated by any of the motives which influenced Hume.
In short, in comparison with his thoughtless comrades, he must not only aspire to become a better man, but, from the constraining motives of the gospel, struggle to be also in every essential respect a better soldier.
And her intuitive generosity was as quick and melting as the exquisite motiveswhich prompted it.
On the other hand, he sought to make the student "learn to master what he rejects as fully as what he adopts, that he may understand the origin as well as the strength and vitality of systems, and the better motives of men who are wrong.
It is not of you or your motives that is here the question; it is of me and my duties.
As it was, I thought it for the best; I deemed it happier that yourmotives should be divided ones, even though you knew it not.
In this way, then, did he learn to look up to Heffernan, who was too shrewd a judge of motives to risk a greater ascendancy by any hazardous appeal to the weaker points of his character.
How basely minded men must be, when they will invent not only actions, but motives to calumniate!
What motives and what actions in the eyes of her whose affection I sought!
The construction put upon Lewin Murdock's motives is confined to the few; for only a few know how much he is interested in the upshot of that search.
These Jesuit gentry have often other motives than money for caging such birds in their convents.
Its motives declare themselves; all wicked save one.
Which he does, telling how he picked it up from the floor of the summer-house; but without alluding to his own motives for being there, or acting as he has throughout.
But before extending this confidence, and appealing to the higher motives of his clerks, it is all-important that the employer shall have selected men fitted for the places they are to occupy.
It is a law of nature that everything flourishes in proportion to the encouragement it receives; and in the same way the actions and motives of servants are in a considerable measure ruled by the disposition of employers.
While, from motives of ambition, Angélique refused to marry him herself, she could not bear the thought of another getting the man whom she had rejected.
It mingled, consciously or unconsciously, with all his motives and plans of life, and yet his hopes were not sanguine.
He had been unaware of his motives from the moment a sense of impending events had come to him in the traction official's automobile.
What these motives were Judge Smith was unable to fathom.
And he grew elated explaining the low, sordid motives which inspired the noble-phrased pronouncements in the press and elsewhere.
Whatever might have been Corbin's motive in the entire undertaking, there was no mistaking the motives of the Watertown men, who had gathered about him.
The precise motives that impelled Samuel Sloan to gain a control of the R.
The interpretation we gave to the note, I and Carlyle, was, that you had been actuated by motives of jealousy; had penned it in a jealous mood.
Isabel had destroyed the only reasonable conclusion he had been able to come to as to the motives for the hasty marriage.
When these inexplicable things take place in the career of a woman, it is a father's duty to look into motivesand causes and actions, although the events in themselves may be, as in this case, irreparable.
Nor are they living Who were the motives that you first went out;[2780] Shame, that they wanted cunning, in excess Hath broke their hearts.
What, however, chiefly concerns the critic and student of religions is to inquire how far the process has been natural, and the efforts of those who have brought about the union have been honest, and their motives pure.
One of the motives for, and one of the guiding principles in the selections of the floating myths, was that the ancestry of the chieftains loyal to the Mikado might be shown to be from the heavenly gods.
For it marked the transition from the novel of adventure to the novel of character--from the narration of entertaining events to the study of men and of manners, of motives and of sentiments.
The same ideas haunt their idle and selfish minds, the same motives move them, the same impulses rule them, and they reason with their emotions, not with their brains.
When she marries, if she doesn't marry from family pressure or from her own motives of common-sense ambition, she marries because she likes the man, not because she loves him.
That's why I say so few among us ever comprehend the motives attributed to us in romance or in that parody of it called realism.
They all hang their romances to motives that no woman recognises as feminine; they ascribe to us instincts which we do not possess, passions of which we are ignorant--a ridiculous moral turpitude in the overmastering presence of love.
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.
All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.
It may be therefore said that William, in his subsequent conduct, was urged by motives of personal enmity against Philip.
Opinions were divided on this point; but that of the Prince of Orange being in favor of the latter country, from many motives of sound policy, it was decided to offer the sovereignty to the duke of Alençon.
It behooved the republic, however, to contribute as much as possible toward the general object; for, among other strong motives to that line of conduct, the finances of Holland were in a state perfectly deplorable.
Be their individual motives of reasoning what they might, they at length adopted the alternative above alluded to, and resigned their places.
His motives were purely temporal; for the party he espoused was now decidedly as much political as religious.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
