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Meanings of personal greatness in English

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Usage of personal greatness in English
1
The conditions of public use and of personal greatness were different.
Studies in Literature
2
Indeed, 'tis not; Yet surely is the hope of personal greatness Sufficient motive for our enterprise!
Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans
3
It is a psychological fact that youth sees his ideal in personal greatness, progressed age in holiness.
The Agony of the Church (1917)
4
The thought that personal greatness did not consist in renouncing the world but in living in it and overcoming it, had not yet been conceived.
The Evolution of Love
5
'But, without personal greatness, you never would have had public liberty,' said Coningsby.
Tancred; Or, The New Crusade
6
'But the majority will always prefer public liberty to personal greatness,' said Lord Marney.
Tancred; Or, The New Crusade
7
'You would hold, then,' said Henry Sydney, 'that the progress of public liberty marches with the decay of personal greatness?'
Tancred; Or, The New Crusade
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