self-exertion

At ordinary times he thought as little of such things as most men, and would not be aware whether he opened a door for himself or had it opened for him by another but now there was a distressing awkwardness in the necessity for self-exertion.

The Belton Estate 2004

In this way she went through that day with somewhat less of suffering than before, and without that necessity for self-exertion which had been worse to her than any suffering.

Tales of all countries 2004

She who perhaps but a moment before may have listened with the utmost self-complacency to the flattering strains of the poet, who had invested her sex with every charm calculated to render them ministering angels to ruder and sterner man, no sooner finds herself addressed as the possessor of a talent, implying responsibility, and imposing self-exertion and self-denial in its exercise, than she instantly disclaims, with capricious diffidence, all pretensions to influence over others.

The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady

York, U.S. In the name of the General Board of Commissioners for the promotion of the political and other interest of the colored people of the United S.ates and the Canadas, by self-exertion, I thank them.

Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany

I deem destiny to be supreme, and self-exertion to be of no avail.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

That alone which is permanent in the world is the feeling of the need of help which itself is a product of the Holy Spirit's self-exertion upon the world and is the basis of the church's title to the world.

The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith" 1862-1929 1911

Christianity, but rather to the fact that "ji-riki," salvation through self-exertion, which is the boast of Buddhism, is but another proof of the essentially self-conscious character of Buddhism.

Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

Nirvana, it is true, at self-suppression, but it depends on the attainment of clear self-consciousness in the first place, and then on prolonged self-exertion for the attainment of that end.

Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

The all-engrossing power of an individual was at an end, but many came forward to essay their strength; the equivocal assistance of an over-powerful protector gave place to a more noble self-exertion on the part of the Estates; and those who were formerly the mere instruments of his aggrandizement now began to work for themselves.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892

His father through self-exertion had attained to the ministry, but had died early, and his widow being by birth a peasant, the children were brought up as farmers.

Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian Juhani Aho 1891