pivate

Updated: May 1, 2025

The question is, as to whether this is a nature capable of pursuing that end for its own sake, without respect to its pivate and merely selfish recompence; whether it is one which has any such means of egress from its particular self, any such means of coming out of its private and exclusive motivity, that it can persevere in its care of the Common Weal, through good and through ill report, through personal wrong and ingratitude, abandoning its private claim, and ascending by that conquest to the divineness.

Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded