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...ho advocate these measures, and a respect for the feelings by which they are actuated. They do not deserve it. If they legislate in ignorance, they ar... ...be content to stand upon their own merits. It may be asked, what motives can actuate a man who has so little regard for the comfort of his fellow bein...

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...incere longing for Truth he desired to know who really sees and hears, who actuates the apparent physical man. He perceived all about him the phenomen...

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...o be kept ever burning, as an image of that eternal power which orders and actuates all things. Others say that this fire was kept burning in front of... ...r feet this way or that, to do what is right: it is obvious that they must actuate the practical and elective element of our nature, by certain initia... ...t that he had to perform the sacrifices, which he had vowed to Cybele; but actuated really by other less apparent reasons. For, in fact, being a man a... ...hemselves, when they had confirmed him in his allotted command. Pompey was actuated in all this by an immoderate desire of ruling, but Crassus, adding...

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...ersonally lose noth- ing by defeat, or at least what he might lose did not actuate him; but neither was it love of justice which made him so anxious, ...

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...s generally very different from that which we would wish to praise, it was actuated perhaps as often as that of 125 Anthony Trollope the majority of ... ...m- mas tell them;’ and she then commenced another course of kissing, being actuated thereto by the terrible idea of sending her child away which her o... ...d to them without any idea that what he should hear from them could either actuate his con- duct or influence his opinion. Such was Mr Arabin, the new... ...hdeacon’s wing at Plumstead. Moreover, to give Mr Slope due credit, he was actuated by greater motives even than these. He wanted a wife, and he wante... ...ither of those, and I hope I shall be forgiven if I now allow myself to be actuated solely by them. My duty in this matter is to his lordship, and I c... ... in his eyes; virtue no beauty. He was void of any of those feelings which actuate men to do good. But he was perhaps equally void of those which actu... ...no such danger was to be feared from Mr Stanhope. Prudential motives alone actuated him. Not only was he about to make love because his sister told hi...

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...at Chippewa or Fort Erie, I take to be of quite as genuine a stamp as what actuates any or all the polemical philanthro pists of the age. He had slai...

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...nary whet to stimulate them to further bloodshed. But, as they were mostly actuated only by a natural desire for mischief, they were about as well sat... ...“think not that there is any base malice, any desire of pain to thee, that actuates me in this thing. Heaven knows, I ear nestly wish thy good. But I...

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...g; but Harold had not yet the perception of the legislative sentiment that actuates men of station in England. His strong inclination was not to go ne...

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...a-rubber ball which I have in my trouser pocket. The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket. It’s the princi...

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...xion. Knowing what this be- tokened, an elder-sisterly instinct of caution actuated Betty to remind her juniors of an engagement made with Dame Jewel ... ...ny pos- 120 Love and Life sible hope on his part.” “I cannot say what may actuate my Lady, but if Amyas Belamour be the man I knew, and as the child’...

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...ried affections; to a single gentle man, then, shall my lodgings be let.” Actuated by this beau tiful and touching impulse (among the best impulses ... ...re what great object has brought you so far from home?’ ‘That object which actuates and animates me in all my gigantic labours, Sir,’ replied Pott, wi...

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... Why? Do you dislike him so much?” “Not at all; I like him. But if you are actuated by the benevo- lent intention of protecting me from Bertha—I don’t... ...ong. It did not occur to her 57 Edith Wharton that Selden might have been actuated merely by the desire to spend a Sunday out of town: women never le... ...this nature are sometimes received with feel- ings as mixed as those which actuate them; and Mrs. Peniston remarked to her confidential maid that, if ... ...ich Lily’s philanthropy was woven. She supposed her beautiful friend to be actuated by the same motive as herself—that sharpening of the moral vi- sio...

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...l crowns? Do you suppose me to have other designs than those that ought to actuate all royal persons who inhabit the sphere where empires are ruled?” ... ...e. Even to impartial minds I am still a problem. Do you believe that I was actuated by hatred, that vengeance and fury were the breath of my nos- tril...

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...hand out of the way when he meets a would- be acquaintance, to those which actuate me. Let me hope my constitution is almost peculiar: my dear mother ...

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...have seen, as you say, that the craving for work was strong, and I fear it actuates her more than she knows.’ ‘No such thing. It is a case of good hea...

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...ty), you must be as well convinced as I am how good they are, and how they actuate him in everything. If he seems to have been at all stern with a cer... ...and pounds, said Mr. Spenlow. As I have mentioned to Miss Trotwood, I am actuated by no mercenary considerations; few men are less so, I believe; bu...

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...hird service; the means simply to satisfy the first, and then to raise and actuate the other two; the ordering of the sauces, first in general, and th...

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...usband. Sometimes he would endeavour to ex- plain to her the motives which actuated him; but he had come to fear that they were and must be unintellig... ...her than for the other; and had I any such feeling I should not wish it to actuate the vote of a single elector. I should be glad if this letter could... ... But the affairs of the country were above private considerations; and he, actuated by pub- lic feelings, would condescend to do that which under othe... ...p or cleverness so great as he possessed. But as regarded Emily, he was so actuated by a personal de- sire to have her back again as an element of hap...

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... ambitious views. Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted that much of the o... ..., whose wisdom and pru- dence will not be diminished by the passions which actuate the parties immediately interested. But not only fewer just causes ... ...her amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the... ... necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into dif- ferent classes, actuated by different sentiments and views. The regulation of these various... ...imes betrayed an ignorance of the true springs by which hu- man conduct is actuated, and belied the original inducements to the establishment of civil... ... distempered enthusiasts? If we were even to sup- pose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe tha... ...wn strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the... ...th regard to the present genius of the people of America, the spirit which actuates the State legislatures, and the principles which are incorporated ... ... constitutional laws; and above all, the vigi- lant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in re...

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...going proposition, that there is no small difference between the joy which actuates, say, a drunkard, and the joy possessed by a philosopher, as I jus...

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...ed. I say that I should have perfect natural right to do so, whether I was actuated by true and evident reason, or whether I was actuated by mere opin... ...t shall be accepted as true, or rejected as false, or what opinions should actuate men in their worship of God. All these questions fall within a man’...

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...poplars continued to favor me with his explanations. In this respect I was actuated by that habitual prudence which has ever been my predominating tra... ...of the Turk which is of gauze. Bringing his right arm across his breast he actuates the little machinery necessary to guide the left arm and the finge... ...ll as the sound echec are produced by other mechanism in the interior, and actuated at will by the man within. The whole of this mechanism—that is to ... ...very particle of the earth’s air, which thencefor- ward, and for ever, was actuated by the one movement of the hand. This fact the mathematicians of o...

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...t the women of our society live for a differ- ent interest from that which actuates fallen women. And I say no, and I am going to prove it to you. If ...

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...submit some reflections upon it in the same spirit of kindness that I know actuates you. Let me first state what I understand to be your position. It ...

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... on at Chippewa or Fort Erie, I take to be of quite as genuine a stamp as what actuates any or all the polemical philanthropists of the age. He had sl...

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... Courage of Citizenship, so named because the motives which are thought to actuate the members of a com- munity in braving danger are the penalties an... ...or safety, or by whatever one name we can include all these things, and is actuated by pleasure attendant on gain, while the other acts upon all thing...

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...inating beneficence; nor do I believe that any rulers in history have been actuated by a more sincere desire to do their duty towards the poorer porti... ... the same feelings and purposes, on a hum 133 J S Mill bler scale, which actuate a despot and oppressor. Now an ordinary citizen in any public posit...

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...er does not tell herself that this is the reason, but she is unconsciously actuated by it. And I have hitherto given way to her wish. I mean to give w... ... wiser to tell the rest, but was withheld by knowing that her motive would actuate 128 The Clever Woman of the Family her sister to a contrary course... ...rth together. A few words told that they were all bound for Mackarel Lane, actuated by the same probability of finding Miss Wil- liams alone, the Colo... ... that is all over now. Even the desire to take care of you would no longer actuate me since you have Keith again; and in a few years I hope to make my...

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... and anger spring from the es- teem we have of the thing desired, heat and actuate love, but satiety begets disgust; ’tis a blunt, dull, stupid, tired...

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...ent with those circumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute, in place of a recommendation of particular mea... ... adopted in the firm belief that they are in accordance with the spirit that actuated the vener ated fathers of the Republic, and that succeeding exp... ...y be removed or remedied by the united and harmonious efforts of both races, actuated by motives of mutual sympathy and regard; and while in duty boun...