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And then he made a mental inventory of his assets, with sad results. He had tried for a long time not to face those facts. But if he gave up the suit he must face them. He had identified this action at last with his faith in the very existence of justice. To realize that the element of personal hatred was the motive power back of it was a shock to the whole structure of his character.
The second of the blended motives of imperial expansion has been the desire for commercial profits; and this motive has played so prominent a part, especially in our own time, that we are apt to exaggerate its force, and to think of it as the sole motive. No doubt it has always been present in some degree in all imperial adventures.
He felt, that I was growing upon his affections, and that in a short time he could not have deserted me. He was driven by a sort of implicit impulse, for the sake of avoiding one ungenerous action, to take refuge in another, the basest and most diabolical. This motive, conjoining with the prospect of the proffered reward, was an incitement too powerful for him to resist.
"I confess I couldn't believe that there wasn't an ulterior motive," he said honestly. "That's where I was less noble than you." She flashed a sudden strange look at him. "There is," she breathed. "I'm going to be honest with you. I have an ulterior motive." "Will you tell me what it is?" Her lips formed the single word of denial. He gazed at her in silence for a moment.
It occurred to him to consult his grandfather; and if he renounced the idea for the obvious reason that Mr. Dagonet's ignorance of business was as fathomless as his own, this was not his sole motive. Finally it occurred to him to put the case hypothetically to Mr. Spragg.
When a General Election was drawing near, one evening after dinner at Hawk's Hall he had a purely business conversation with a political Whip who, perhaps not without motive, had been complaining to him of the depleted state of the Party Chest. "Well," said Mr. Blake, "you know that my principles are yours and that I should like to help your, or rather our cause.
Cecilia, who could not doubt the motive of her curiosity, had no great difficulty in forbearing to offer her any interruption. She drew her head back in a few minutes, and casting it upwards, with her hands clasped, softly whispered, "Heaven ever shield and bless him! and O may he never feel such pain as I do!"
This put us, you may suppose, upon terms not the most agreeable, I desired to know, if I were prohibited dreaming of you? For, my dear, you have all my sleeping as well as waking hours. But I have nevertheless a much more laudable motive I should think myself the unworthiest of creatures, could I be brought to slight a dear friend, and such a meritorious one, in her distress.
He ground his teeth and shook his hands overhead; then, under the impulse of another idea, he walked away and back again to Ben-Hur swiftly, and caught his shoulder with a strong grasp. "If I were as thou, son of Arrius as young, as strong, as practised in arms; if I had a motive hissing me to revenge a motive, like thine, great enough to make hate holy Away with disguise on thy part and on mine!
Now a faculty which has no form of its own, but is a mere mirror so to speak of all that may be reflected in it, cannot be a substance, and must be simply a power inherent in a substance and subject to the same fate as that in which it inheres. This explains the motive of Alexander's view and is at the same time a criticism of the doctrine of Themistius.
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