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A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
The art in it is as admirable as the emotion is sincere. Or take a different illustration from a Rambler, in which he is discussing the well-known fact that the commonest cause of shyness is self-importance. "Those who are oppressed by their own reputation will perhaps not be comforted by hearing that their cares are unnecessary.
In manner he was slow and, as it were, nonchalant, and at the same time studiously free and easy; he made efforts to conceal his self-importance, but it was apparent at every instant. All his acquaintances found him tedious, but said he was clever at his work. "I've been to you twice to-day, brother. You see, he's come to himself," cried Razumihin.
The letter is in duplicate, sent by two good messengers, who go by different routes. When Jocelyn looked up, dry-lipped, breathless, Nala was standing before her, beaming with self-importance. "Who gave you this?" "Marie at Msala." "Who is she?" "Oh Mr. Durnovo's woman at Msala. She keeps his house." "But this letter is for Mr. Durnovo," cried Jocelyn, whose fear made her unreasonably angry.
Even at the tune I was not sure I liked his agreeable voice: it had a self-importance out of keeping with the humdrum nature of his story, as though a breeze engaged in shaking out a table-cloth should have fancied itself inflating a banner.
It swelled them immeasurably in self-importance if they could trace their lineage back in unbroken line to one of the twelve patriarchs, or to one of those who came out of Egypt.
It is not to inflate national vanity, nor to swell a light and empty feeling of self-importance, but it is that we may judge justly of our situation, and of our own duties, that I earnestly urge upon you this consideration of our position and our character among the nations of the earth.
He, after the fashion of all the false prophets who have deluded themselves and others, drew new faith in his own lie from the credulity of his disciples. His countenance, his voice, his gestures, indicated boundless self-importance. When he appeared in public he looked, such is the language of one who probably had often seen him, like Atlas conscious that a world was on his shoulders.
The habits of self-importance which are thus acquired by authors are highly injurious to a well-regulated mind; for the cup of flattery, if it does not, like that of Circe, reduce men to the level of beasts, is sure, if eagerly drained, to bring the best and the ablest down to that of fools.
Between the first and second group one man swaggered past alone, as though he were something apart, and he strutted and rolled as he walked with pompous self-importance.
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