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Man has been repeatedly described or even defined, as by differential privilege of his nature, 'A cooking animal. Brutes, it is said, have faces, man only has a countenance; brutes are as well able to eat as man, man only is able to cook what he eats. Such are the romances of self-flattery.
Perhaps it is self-flattery to suppose I have any place in your regard. Should this be so, the error will carry with it its own punishment, for my happy dream will be over. I will try to think otherwise, however, and shall await your answer with hope. Trusting soon to hear from you, I remain, dear Nellie. Sincerely Yours, J.L. Master To Miss Nellie Reynolds, Hartford, Conn. An Ardent Declaration.
It was seeing the parent in the child, the most marked form of self-flattery. Actually, tears of joy ran down those black, wizened cheeks. I wouldn't have had it otherwise, and I was glad I stayed for the young buck. Wherever Sir George Grey went in Australia, he found the natives living from hand to mouth, on roots and the reward of the chase.
She was thankful to be happy and though Fred was a man little given to self-flattery in his relations with women, he could not but be pleased at the change produced in her by her intercourse with him. But while Fred and Giselle considered themselves as two friends trying to console each other, people had begun to talk about them.
From the habit of observing only its outward effects, we overlook its rancorous principle. The propensity to extenuate sin arises from ignorance of its vileness. We judge of every thing by comparison, and self-flattery always renders the comparison favorable to ourselves. But small and large are terms which, though we have chosen to adopt them, do not properly belong to the subject.
I begin to believe that the only solid thing about them is the spiritual value which everyone discovers in his own form of activity " "Bah!" interrupted the doctor, without stopping for an instant the idle swinging movement of his legs. "Self-flattery. Food for that vanity which makes the world go round.
She was thankful to be happy and though Fred was a man little given to self-flattery in his relations with women, he could not but be pleased at the change produced in her by her intercourse with him. But while Fred and Giselle considered themselves as two friends trying to console each other, people had begun to talk about them.
He may say that he angles only for the pleasure of being out-of-doors, and that he is just as well contented when he takes nothing as when he makes a good catch. He may think so, but it is not true. He is not telling a deliberate falsehood. He is only assuming an unconscious pose, and indulging in a delicate bit of self-flattery. Even if it were true, it would not be at all to his credit.
He felt that he had penetrated more deeply than ever before into this intricate affair, and that he had originated a leading idea he could say it without self-flattery calculated to clear up the whole business, to strengthen him in his official career, to discomfit his enemies, and thereby to be of the greatest benefit to the government.
Meantime, what do you think is going to happen to the treasure floating about the gulf with the great Capataz and the great politician?" "Why are you uneasy about it, doctor?" "I uneasy! And what the devil is it to me? I put no spiritual value into my desires, or my opinions, or my actions. They have not enough vastness to give me room for self-flattery.
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