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  • Perhaps unmotived self-immolation, were that possible, or else at mere suggestion of storm and night, were as great evidence as such a man could give of power over self, and so of the expression of the self.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Perhaps unmotived self-immolation, were that possible, or else at mere suggestion of storm and night, were as great evidence as such a man could give of power over self, and so of the expression of the self.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Perhaps unmotived self-immolation, were that possible, or else at mere suggestion of storm and night, were as great evidence as such a man could give of power over self, and so of the expression of the self.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Perhaps unmotived self-immolation, were that possible, or else at mere suggestion of storm and night, were as great evidence as such a man could give of power over self, and so of the expression of the self.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Perhaps unmotived self-immolation, were that possible, or else at mere suggestion of storm and night, were as great evidence as such a man could give of power over self, and so of the expression of the self.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Perhaps unmotived self-immolation, were that possible, or else at mere suggestion of storm and night, were as great evidence as such a man could give of power over self, and so of the expression of the self.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Still more in practical life, mere unmotived, gratuitous possibilities may be disregarded.

    Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge Hastings Rashdall

  • Somewhat less unmotived, if we look upon it from a merely intellectual point of view, is the theory of pre-existent souls without a personal God.

    Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge Hastings Rashdall

  • But such a Mythology as this seems to be intellectually unmotived and unhelpful.

    Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge Hastings Rashdall

  • ` ` That's all right then, '' and there was a short silence, during which the woman shot her dark glances all round the room again and again, while on her lips there was a half-smile, not so much absent-minded as totally unmotived, which Peyrol observed with a side glance, but could not make anything of.

    The Rover 1923

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