Their preening and posture saw them linked with the attribute of self-conceit.
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But his faults were faults of sympathy, not of self-conceit or intolerance of criticism.
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Instruction on the self-conceit and the false visions. Romanian elder Cleopa (Ilie) specifies 7 ways of falling into delusion of false visions and dreams:Elder Cleopa. On dreams and visions. 2012. Extracts from the book.
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This kind of delusion includes false way of prayer (with imagination of Heaven, Lord Jesus Christ, Angels, Saints) resulting in hallucinations mixed with real visions on the same subject originating from the demons. # self-conceit (pride, arrogance) – the person attributes to himself dignity before God that he does not have. Self-conceit can manifest itself in false attribution of natural feelings during the prayer to the action of Divine grace. St. Ignatius says that the first kind of prelest results from the wrong action of the mind and the second - from the wrong action of the heart.
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He has been described as enigmatic and contradictory, with a capacity for both great personal generosity and extreme cruelty and driven by insatiable curiosity, self-conceit, and ambition.Ando, Clifford "Phoenix", Phoenix, 52 (1998), pp. 183–185. . When Trajan died, his widow claimed that he had nominated Hadrian as emperor immediately before his death.
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Independent of these offices, Carte engaged in much theological and antiquarian work. As a clergyman, two of his sermons were published: A Dissuasive from Murmuring: Being a Sermon on 1 Cor. X. 10. (1694) and The Cure of Self-Conceit: A Sermon Preach'd at St. Martin's in Leicester on Sunday, May 13. 1705 (1705).
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The very thought about forthcoming grace and receiving Divine gifts, expectation of grace is a clear manifestation of pride. St. Ignatius writes: "If there is an expectation of grace within you – beware, you are in a dangerous state! <...> Prelest exists already in self-conceit, in considering oneself worthy, in the very expectation of grace." St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov).
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Samuel Austin the younger (died ca. 1665), poetical writer, inherited little of his father's humility, and seems, indeed, to have been an arrant coxcomb. He became a commoner of Wadham College, Oxford, in 1652, took his BA degree in 1656, and afterwards migrated to Cambridge. At Oxford he made a laughing-stock of himself by his inordinate self-conceit.
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Voltaire wrote in this genre in Micromegas: a comic romance, which is a biting satire on philosophy, ignorance, and the self-conceit of mankind (1752, English 1753). His Zadig (1747) and Candide (1759) became central texts of the French Enlightenment and of the modern novel. An example of the experimental novel is Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767), with its rejection of continuous narration.Encyclopaedia Britannica .
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Tender realizes he has to crawl under them in order to make any progress. He reaches a bridge, and is met with men in rowboats he thought might be murderers and robbers who infested the place. They began to shoot arrows at him, some of which missed him, and others which hit the shield he had received from House Beautiful. The men shooting at him included Worldly-honour, Arrogancy, Pride, Self-conceit, Vain-glory, and Shame.
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Poe's drive to succeed, Griswold wrote, was because he sought "the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit". Much of this characterization of Poe was copied almost verbatim from that of the fictitious Francis Vivian in The Caxtons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.Moss, 125 Griswold biographer Joy Bayless wrote that Griswold used a pseudonym not to conceal his relationship to the obituary but because it was his custom never to sign his newspaper and his magazine contributions.Bayless, 164 Regardless, Griswold's true identity was soon revealed.
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But Herbert's work was severely attacked by Sir Edward Denny, high sheriff of Kerry, and owner of Tralee and the neighbourhood, who complained of Herbert's self-conceit, and declared that his constables were rogues, and that the native Irish under his care were ruthlessly pillaged. Herbert replied that Denny encouraged pirates on the Kerry coast, and did not treat with consideration Irish converts to Protestantism. Herbert finally returned to England in the spring of 1589. Meiler Magrath, archbishop of Cashel, wrote of Herbert in complimentary fashion.
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The crowd in the hall backed Hitler with a roar of approval. He finished triumphantly: > You can see that what motivates us is neither self-conceit nor self- > interest, but only a burning desire to join the battle in this grave > eleventh hour for our German Fatherland ... One last thing I can tell you. > Either the German revolution begins tonight or we will all be dead by dawn! Hitler returned to the antechamber, where the triumvirs remained, to ear- shattering acclaim, which the triumvirs could not have failed to notice.
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Thus, the presence of a living Buddha is also necessary for Sarvāstivāda. The Mahāvibhāṣā explains that its discussion of the bodhisattva path is partly meant "to stop those who are in fact not bodhisattvas from giving rise to the self-conceit that they are." The Mahāvastu of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins presents four stages of the bodhisattva path without giving specific time frames (though it's said to take various asaṃkhyeya kalpas): # Natural (prakṛti), one first plants the roots of merit in front of a Buddha to attain Buddhahood. # Resolution (praṇidhāna), one makes their first resolution to attain Buddhahood in the presence of a Buddha.
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He claimed that Poe often wandered the streets, either in "madness or melancholy", mumbling and cursing to himself, was easily irritated, was envious of others, and that he "regarded society as composed of villains". Poe's drive to succeed, Griswold wrote, was because he sought "the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit". Much of this characterization of Poe was copied almost verbatim from that of the fictitious Francis Vivian in The Caxtons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Griswold claimed that "among the last requests of Mr. Poe" was that he become his literary executor "for the benefit of his family".
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But it was not completed by his death and David Stevenson says "That this never appeared need be little lamented, for 'Mercer's writings are mainly valuable for their autobiographical details. The majority of his verses are mere doggerel, and display an inordinate self-conceit' (DNB). But his conceit did at least ensure that enough information survived to reconstruct the outline of his life." Mercer has been mistakenly credited by some with writing The Moderate Cavalier, or, The Soldier's Description of Ireland which was published in 1675, but the William Mercer who wrote it had served as a Royalist in the English Civil War.
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Crane wrote to the Creelman family, asking for donations to her private fund for the children of Kate Lyon and Harold Frederic, who had died several months earlier. Alice responded in the negative, criticizing Kate Lyon for "the evil influence she has exerted over a morally weak man". Cora Crane responded to Creelman's letter, writing, "To me, the supreme egotism of women who never having been tempted, and so knowing nothing of the temptation of another's soul, set themselves upon their pedestals of self-conceit and conscious virtue, judging their unfortunate sisters guilty alike, is the hardest thing in life".Cora Crane: A Biography of Mrs.
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Max Muller, The Upanishads, Part 2, Maitrayana-Brahmana Upanishad, Oxford University Press, pages 295-299 In paragraph 3.2, the Upanishad presents the "theory of gross elements and subtle elements" which combine to form Sarira (शरीर, body). The "elemental soul" resides in this body, and is overcome by prakrti guna (inner nature of an individual's personality).Maitri Upanishad - Sanskrit Text with English Translation EB Cowell (Translator), Cambridge University, Bibliotheca Indica, pages 249-251 This, states the text, is cause of confusion, conflicting desires, unsteady behaviors and self-conceit. Man, because of this confusion, binds himself with suffering, just like a bird binds itself inside a net.
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The fable appears as number 88 in the Perry IndexAesopica] and was to become a favourite in Europe from the Renaissance on. It is directed against self- conceit in general and concerns a visit to a statue maker made in human disguise by the god Hermes. Finding that Jove, the king of the gods, was set at a low price and his queen at only a little more, he felt sure that, since he was their messenger, his own statue must command much more. When he asked about it, however, the sculptor told him that if he would buy the other two statues he could have that one free.
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Of this the eagle proclaimed, "That as the peacock's Envy had taken away all his Claim, so no less had he Nightingale's Self-conceit frustrated all his pretensions; for those who are so wrapped up in their own Perfections, as to mind nothing but themselves, are forever liable to all sorts of Accidents." Next was the owl, who proposed that he was considered the wisest by all birds. When the eagle asks for proof, the owl refers to the other birds, who promptly tell the eagle that the owl calls himself wise and they have never bothered to correct him. The eagle dismisses the owl on a false claim just as the daw.
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A most intelligent and courageous girl, Poorvi (Meghana Raj) is brought up in sophisticated environment is more inclined towards the corporate lifestyle and as per her wish, having decided to stay away from all her relatives/ close ones. She is in a live-in relationship with Dev (Tilak Shekar) as per her choice, but with her own ego, self-conceit she is unable to lead a happy life. Eventually, she gets separated from Dev (Tilak Shekar) during pregnancy. After a few years, Due to her imprudent decision when she was about to give up her life, Akash (Shri Mahadev), while saving her on the road meets with an accident, she decides to save him and indirectly saves herself.
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Despite all these similarities between Douglass' and Franklin's concept of the self-made man, the two men differ in their emphasis on relationships to other men. Before Douglass even gives his definition of the self-made man, he remarks, "Properly speaking, there are in the world no such men as self-made men." (p549) > It must in truth be said though it may not accord well with self-conscious > individuality and self-conceit, that no possible native force of character, > and no depth or wealth of originality, can lift a man into absolute > independence of his fellow-men, and no generation of men can be independent > of the preceding generation. (p549) Whereas Franklin does not put a strong emphasis on relationships, for Douglass, they are a matter of the utmost importance.
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The double ambition for military and literary fame inspired his first work, which appeared in 1685 under the name La Muse de cavalier, or An Apology for such Gentlemen as make Poetry their Diversion not their Business. The next year saw Cutts serving as a volunteer under the Duke of Lorraine in Hungary, and it is said that he was the first to plant the imperial standard on the walls at the storming of Buda (July 1686). In 1687 he published a book of Poetical Exercises, and the following year he was serving as lieutenant-colonel in Holland. General Hugh Mackay described Cutts about this time as pretty tall, lusty and well shaped, an agreeable companion with abundance of wit, affable and familiar, but too much seized with vanity and self-conceit.
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The theme of the program was "Passion Lives Here," and the 4000m2 stage was shaped like an anatomic heart with a mosh pit in the centre where the athletes congregated for the second half of the ceremonies. The athletes were thus put in the centre of action and in front of the stage, emphasizing that the heart of each athlete was the focus of the Games. There were sentiments of self-conceit amongst TOROC for not including a tribute section during the Opening Ceremonies honoring the Past Host Cities of the previous installments of the Olympic Winter Games that was the very first part of the XIX Olympic Winter Games that had been held in Salt Lake City, USA on 8 February 2002. The ceremony was conducted in French and English, the two official languages of the International Olympic Committee, and Italian, the language of the host country.
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He also vehemently denounced his critics and those with whom he disagreed. For example, in 1888 the Columbia Chess Chronicle quoted a lecture he had given two days before on the Steinitz Gambit. After condemning as "utterly worthless" the analysis of that opening published in two English periodicals, Gossip declaimed:Winter 2004 (quoting Columbia Chess Chronicle, September 15, 1888, pp. 91–92). > In order, therefore, to establish an important point of theory, and at the > same time to prevent American chessplayers from being misled and deceived by > the superficial analysis of incompetent British chess editors, whose object > in condemning the Steinitz Gambit has obviously been mainly to depreciate > the originality of its illustrious inventor, whom they invariably try to > drag down to their own miserable level of shallow incompetency and self- > conceit, I submit the following variations which at any rate possess the > undeniable merit of exposing the hollow analytical twaddle continually > published in the two London journals above named.
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