It is beneficial to public as well as private interest: "Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency" (Prov.
Whether I be actuated in this affair by a view to public or private interest, by friendship or enmity, I must be induced to do my utmost to procure the estate to the latter.
That is a motive too remote and too sublime to affect the generality of mankind, and operate with any force in actions so contrary to private interest as are frequently those of justice and common honesty.
Love of our country is a powerful auxiliary motiv to patriotic actions; but rarely or never operates against private interest.
That enthusiasm which was called public spirit, heroic virtue, and love of country, has long ago subsided, and is absorbed in the general steady principle, private interest.
The maintenance of, why improper to be trusted to private interest, 304.
Into other arts, the division of labour is naturally introduced by the prudence of individuals, who find that they promote their private interest better by confining themselves to a particular trade, than by exercising a great number.
But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest; and Jerom, or Ambrose, might patiently acquiesce in the justice of an ineffectual or salutary law.
Here, as there, private interest, ambition, and party feeling might veil themselves under the names of religion and patriotism, and the passions of a few citizens drive the entire nation to take up arms.
Jealousy, private interest, and religious differences had long divided many of the nobles; their share in the common neglect and contempt with which they were treated, and a general hatred of the minister had again united them.
But, he asks, is there not also a calm determination towards the good of others, without reference to private interest of any kind?
There are no cases of nations where moral approval is restricted to the pursuit of private interest.
This, the grateful sensation when we are morally approved and praised, with the reverse when we are censured, he argues in his usual manner, involves no thought of private interest.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private interest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
