"Self-aggrandizement" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for polished manners, habits of dissipation, and an excessive regard to their own interest, to men who knew the strength and disposition of the enemy, who, by deep researches into past times, could judge of the present, and were too noble-minded to build plans of self-aggrandizement on the future. Misled by smooth flatterers, the Queen manifested a fatal dislike to all those whose minds were too much occupied to pay her particular court. Opposition to her opinion, was, in her estimation, high treason. The uxuriousness of the amiable ...
— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West
... her that here, by this same desire for self-aggrandizement, or, to call it by its more common name of popularity, Susan had fallen, she would ...
— Miss Ashton's New Pupil - A School Girl's Story • Mrs. S. S. Robbins
... father, constable of the Tower in London, and so held a position of great strategic importance in turbulent times. Early in the strife for the crown he seems to have seen very clearly the opportunity for self-aggrandizement which was offered by the uncertainty of Stephen's power, and to have resolved to make the most of it for his own gain without scruple of conscience. His demand was for the earldom of Essex, and this was granted him by the king. Apparently ...
— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams
... invader of others. In her, as in other republics of old and of modern times, the same energy that had inspired the most heroic efforts in defence of the national independence soon learned to employ itself in daring and unscrupulous schemes of self-aggrandizement at the expense of neighboring nations. In the interval between the Persian and the Peloponnesian wars she had rapidly grown into a conquering and dominant state, the chief of a thousand tributary cities, and the mistress of the largest and best-manned navy that the Mediterranean ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2 • Various |
