This, however, is a consideration altogether alien to the Christian spirit, the aspiration of which is to lay up treasures not on earth but in heaven.

His aspiration that colonists and Americans should be attracted to Oxford has been realized by Mr Rhodes's will.

xxiii.) blend together his desire that his family should retain the kingship, and his aspiration for a kingdom of righteousness on earth.

He possesses the cool temperament of the man of science rather than the fervid Godward aspiration of the mystic proper; and the speculative impulse which lies at the root of this form of thought is almost entirely absent from his writings.

As a young girl she was fired by the aspiration after intellectual liberty that animated so many young Russian women at that period, and drove them to study at foreign universities, since their own were closed to them.