There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same
interests.
Listen, then, he said; I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the
interest of the stronger.
You are confident that then man will cease from intentional error and will, so to say, be compelled not to want to set his will against his normal
interests. That is not all; then, you say, science itself will teach man (though to my mind it's a superfluous luxury) that he never has really had any caprice or will of his own, and that he himself is something of the nature of a piano-key or the stop of an organ, and that there are, besides, things called the laws of nature; so that everything he does is not done by his willing it, but is done of itself, by the laws of nature.
Again Miss Davidson began making efforts to enlist the
interest and help of the coloured and white people in and near Tuskegee.
Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious
interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments; and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial confederacies than from its union under one government.
In the formation of treaties, it will regard the
interest of the whole, and the particular
interests of the parts as connected with that of the whole.
The Material
Interest merely looked in the other's eyes without saying anything.
Rook's
interest in him may surely have been a grateful
interest.
Finding that I took an
interest in the subject, he expressed a regret that the true nature and extent of his enterprise and its national character and importance had never been understood, and a wish that I would undertake to give an account of it.
Sometimes I feel rather lonely, especially in the evening; but I generally manage to
interest myself in something or in some one.
But the
interest of the day's proceedings for us is centred neither in the learned discourse of our friend Van Systens, however eloquent it might be, nor in the young dandies, resplendent in their Sunday clothes, and munching their heavy cakes; nor in the poor young peasants, gnawing smoked eels as if they were sticks of vanilla sweetmeat; neither is our
interest in the lovely Dutch girls, with red cheeks and ivory bosoms; nor in the fat, round mynheers, who had never left their homes before; nor in the sallow, thin travellers from Ceylon or Java; nor in the thirsty crowds, who quenched their thirst with pickled cucumbers; -- no, so far as we are concerned, the real
interest of the situation, the fascinating, dramatic
interest, is not to be found here.
With a portion of this property Mr Godfrey Nickleby purchased a small farm, near Dawlish in Devonshire, whither he retired with his wife and two children, to live upon the best
interest he could get for the rest of his money, and the little produce he could raise from his land.