Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Motive definition, something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc. With several clogged arteries, the unhealthy man had a serious motive to lose weight and get fit. Motive definition, something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc. Not much motive for a skip, either. He had the And one Mysticism differs, therefore, from ordinary pantheism in that its inmost In April 1793 he unexpectedly received tidings of the death of Lady Sheffield; and the The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior A fire without light, compared to the heat which gathers in a haystack when the hay has been stored before it was properly dry - heat, in short, as an agitation of the particles - is the Scenery and incident are more varied, and the poet has an opportunity for a more lyric interpretation of The use of cranes is of great antiquity, but it is only since the great industrial development of the 19th century, and the introduction of other This laudation, both of the Goths and of their Byzantine conquerors, may perhaps help us to understand the Thus it appears that the gift theory may after all be primitive; the worship of, or care for, the dead may have supplied in other areas the " I am not conscious," says he, " of having ever bought a book from a For overhead travellers in workshops, and for most of the cranes which fall into our second class, electricity as a Neoplatonism owes its form to Plato, but its underlying It was performed by Fesch, now a cardinal; but Napoleon could afterwards urge the claim that all the legal formalities had not bten complied with; and the Its obligations to other contemporary arts are many and obvious, especially in its later stages; but every borrowed form and He had already begun his work of toleration, for he had recently produced a drama (Die Juden, 1749), the So long as these remain potential or ideal, they form the But Edward's title had been expressly sanctioned by act of parliament, so that there was no more room for election in his case than in that of George I., and the real From the first the Crusade, however clerical in its conception, was largely secular in its conduct; and thus, somewhat paradoxically, a religious enterprise aided the growth of the secular The emperor Isaac Angelus had not only the old grudge of all Eastern 1 The "economic" It is indeed true that to thousands the hope of acquiring spiritual merit must have been a great These extensions in the south and east had also, it is easy to see, a commercial With the disappearance of direct taxation as a source of federal revenue, the In Paley's Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy' (1785), the link between general pleasure (the standard) and private pleasure or pain (the Not so easily to be classed, but among the most individual and beautiful of his pictures, are a few of which the Of the epic poets of the Silver Age P. Papinius Statius (c. 45-96) shows the greatest technical skill and the richest pictorial fancy in the execution of detail; but his epics have no true inspiring Shaftesbury's philosophical importance (see Ethics) is due mainly to his ethical speculations, in which his As the king was surrounded by greedy and unscrupulous nobles, among whom his cousins, the sons of Ferdinand, commonly known as the Infantes (princes) of Aragon, were perhaps the worst, his reliance on a favourite who had every Innocent's letters, however, not only reveal that superior wisdom which can take into account practical needs and relax severity of principle at the right moment, as well as that spirit of tolerance and equity which is opposed to the excess of zeal and intellectual narrowness of subordinates, but they also prove that, in the internal government of the Church, he was bent on gathering into his hands all the This document annulled the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, with its schismatic tendencies, but at the same time confirmed the preponderating influence of the king upon the Gallican Church - a concession which in spite of its many dubious aspects at least made the sovereign the natural defender of the Church and gave him the strongest The controversy between determinism and libertarianism hinges largely on the significance of the word "The group of two longnecked gazelles facing a palm tree is of extraordinary refinement, and shows the, artistic consciousness in every part; the symmetric rendering of the palm tree, reduced to fit the scale of the animals, the dainty grace of the smooth gazelles contrasted with the rugged stem, the delicacy of the long flowing curves and the fine indications of the joints, all show a sense of design which has rarely been equalled in the ceaseless repetitions of the tree and supporters All were impoverished, R and greed was the dominant 12 At Fernando Po, when there The interpretation is uncertain, but the He gives several reasons for this in his letter to the king, but in all probability his chief He made over 2000 glides safely, using gravity as his Modern psychology has strengthened the contention for a fixed connexion between Do you wonder if every person who thinks your baby is cute has a sinister ulterior As far as I know I have two amends remaining, one hopefully will be done soon, and I am going to have to wait until the right time for the remaining one, I need to check my You may even want to consider something from the active wear line, perhaps the Arc'teryx Lying that is consistently self-serving with no prosocial While the seekers were motivated by love of wisdom, there is no doubt that some financial Destiny stared up at her with big gray eyes that questioned her Dean couldn't bring himself to think of any of them seriously, given their lack of reasonable The rapid smaller tributaries of the Dniester supply numerous flour-mills with The principality or the emporium, it is true, would supply Love, in the form of pathetic sentiment rather than of irregular passion, is the chief He disliked the formalities of the law, and in one instance, "the miller Arnold case," in connexion with which he thought injustice had been done to a poor man, he dismissed the judges, condemned them to a year's fortress arrest, and compelled them to make good out of their own pockets the loss sustained by their supposed victim - not a wise proceeding, but one springing from a generous On the other hand, he does not seem to think that moral sentiment or " taste " can " become a (i) the general power of choosing among different alternatives of action without a Like Price he holds that an action is not good unless done from a good With Price, again, he holds that rightness of intention and A certain common agreement has been reached concerning the impossibility of regarding pleasure as the sole Similarly he disregards the distinction between pleasant feeling as an immediate Graduates of technical schools are received as special apprentices and are directed in a course of four years through the erecting shops, vice shop, blacksmith shop, boiler shop, roundhouse, test department, machine shop, air-brake shop, iron foundry, car shop, work of firing on the road, office work in the They have since been adduced as Divine attestations of her saintship, but the sisterhood in the convent set them down to possession by a devil; her new departure was due in their eyes to no worthier Sonhild or Svanhild becomes the wife of Ermanaric, and the He put the matter on the ground of preserving the independence of the Irish Church, but the real The aim which the emperor had in view was, by a concentration of power which should make him "the beneficent Only after the fall of man begins the creation of space, time and matter, or of the world as we now know it; and the Partly under the influence of Mazzini, the freedom of Italy became his ruling He believed that the state, or rather the bureaucracy, might be the Mehemet Ali never stated the reasons which led him to order the occupation of the country, but his leading At a later stage - in postWealden days - it was the appearance of Angiosperms, probably in northern latitudes, that formed the chief On the other hand, in the very next stanza we are introduced to what is to be the leading The Hercules Farnese of Naples, though signed by Glycon of Athens, and a later and exaggerated transcript, owes something, including the Darkyn was always right; the sense he gave her to gauge when someone around her had an ulterior Claire Quincy is no saint in anyone's book, but her These terraces were built for the workers at the adjacent Mold Junction He becomes a lone gunslinger who is so blinded by his compulsion that it obscures any other hypothetical tenant in an ability to pay scenario is likely to have no profit Observing the passionate love affair between light and atmosphere became the In this sense, they too hastily ascribe a purely economic Unable to put together any sort of defense for an incompetent government, you are forced to invent an unworthy Those affected feel that the Revenue is perceiving a tax avoidance Introduction of ' Sandringham ' Class ' B17 ' 4-6-0 locoNeither of the two rigs in these cases had a rudder or The hypothetical tenant in an ability to pay scenario is likely to have no profit A number of ex-Barry " long termers " stand in the compound, along with sundry other items of tank into which steam is introduced; this, mixing with the hot water, gives it additional Although this argument has the support of such great names as Butler and Kant, yet it will repel many minds as an appeal to the This system is more expen sive than the open-circuit system, ®' as the battery is always at work; but it offers some advantages on circuits where there are a number 'a' N% b '.a of intermediate stations, as the ° ° circuit is under a constant electro In the last as in the first step of Cranmer's promotion Henry had been actuated by one and the same It is an eternal weakness in our moral being which makes us constantly squint aside from the thought of duty towards the forbidden There are (a) given instinctive " propensions "; (b) a part of higher principles, " benevolence " and " rational self-love," equally valid with each other, though at times they may seem to conflict; (c) there is the master principle of conscience, which judges between Of course that was not Mill's special or conscious His theory of the development of free-will (the objective spirit), which takes its start from Kant's conception of history, with its three stages of legal right, morality as determined by The evolutionary idea has revolutionized and unified geography as it did biology, breaking down the old hard-and-fast partitions between the various departments, and substituting the study of the nature and influence of actual terrestrial environments for the earlier It may be urged that if none of the phenomena is genuine we have to assume a large amount of apparently aimless trickery in non-professional mediums.