Meanings of self-seeker in английском

This is not the conduct of the charlatan, not of the self-seeker.

Geoffrey was not a truly ambitious man; he was no mere self-seeker.

The method that this ancient Jewish self-seeker adopted is rude and unskilful.

He has now become a by-word as a hypocrite and a merciless self-seeker.

I will brand you false, a self-seeker, a pretender, a charlatan, a trickster, a rogue.

Good ground, even though he was wedded to external life; a self-seeker; a lover of the world?

He was in no sense a self-seeker.

The great man cannot be a self-seeker.

Most men recognized that he was nothing but a self-seeker, and there were few who trusted him.

Let me but leave the good name to my three daughters, and that is enough for me; I am not a self-seeker.

A halo of false romance and glory, however, surrounds this crusade, mainly by reason of the associations connecting it with the self-seeker Richard.

Or are you a too-easy, too-facile man-pleaser and self-seeker, being all things to all men that you may make use of all men?

The Duke of Argyll, soldier, statesman, orator, shrewd self-seeker, represented the Whigs of Scotland; the honest, proud, pompous Duke of Somerset those of England.

Montcalm, whatever may have been his shortcomings in some respects, was no self-seeker, and was very properly disgusted with the mal-administration which everywhere prevailed.

He should have remembered the ancient bitter rancour; should have recognized, in the amity of later times, the amity of the self-seeker, and mistrusted it.

Burleigh, who misjudged him as a dreamer and self-seeker, not only refused to help him at the court but successfully opposed his advancement by Elizabeth.