An example of Georgie's facility in the art of composition is still treasured by his proud mother, and reads as follows: Example: The selfishness of Achilles, as remarked by the poet Homer, occasioned a thousand woes to the Greeks (Hom

He ought to be cursed for his contemptible selfishness in bringing so much suffering upon the race!

The theme is not so much the duty of service as the joy of service, the happiness that we feel in making others happy; and the four carols mark the four stages in the conversion of Scrooge from solitary selfishness to social good will.

There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour and a general want of understanding.

Only once have I deviated from the life of consistent selfishness at which every sensible man should aim, and see how I am punished!

It appears to me that culture, which brings luxury and selfishness with it, has a tendency rather to weaken than promote this affection.

But above all the deep rooted immorality, which is inherent in an economy of pure capital, ate into the heart of society and of the commonwealth, and substituted an absolute selfishness for humanity and patriotism.

At least, so says at first sight the science of bio-geology; till the naturalist, if he be also human and humane, is glad to escape from the confusion and darkness of the universal battle-field of selfishness into the order and light of Christmas- tide.

Not sonot so at least at firstfor that would be to appeal to bodily fear and bodily pleasure, to the very selfishness from which Christ is trying to deliver it; and to neglect the very prevenient grace, the very hold on the soul which Christ Himself offers us.

There was not apparently, at this early time of his life, one grain of selfishness about him.

But no intelligence would support me, I encountered fear or effeminacy among the enlightened classes, selfishness among the rich, simplicity among the youth, and only in the mountains, in the waste places, among the outcasts, have I found my men.

There's selfishness amang those who'll no ha' the weans they should.

Dwell with her according to knowledge, says St Peter; use your experience to set her right if she be wrong; and use your experience and your strength, too, to keep down your own temper and your own selfishness toward her, to bear and forbear, to give and forgive, live and let live.

From Norfolk Island, in 1870, he wrote to his sister when he was holding an ordination: "At such times as these, when one is specially engaged in solemn work, there is much heart searching; and I cannot tell you how my conscience accuses me of such systematic selfishness during many long yearsI mean I see how I was all along making self the centre, and neglecting all kinds of dutiessocial and othersin consequence".

" "You show your selfishness by dwelling on what you have lost.

The fact that he is weak has, I think, dawned upon her already; she may also see his evident selfishness before long.

Speaking of the Hottentots (Namaqua) he says (351) that "whereas Tindall indicates sensuality and selfishness as two of their most prominent characteristics, Th.