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Updated: May 3, 2025
Then would he be cured of exaggerated self-estimation, and that we all need." Having discharged the duty of addressing his own subjects, the Emperor's next care, after a stay at Kiel where a German Emperor and King now for the first time in history appeared in the uniform of an admiral, was personally to announce his accession at the courts of his fellow-European sovereigns.
Minturn's ideas of her own elevation and importance in the social world had been large, they were now increased threefold. A winter's residence at the seat of government, during which time she mingled freely with the little great people who revolve around certain fixed stars that shine with varied light in the political metropolis, raised still higher the standard of self-estimation.
Down safe, that is, from the steep and slippery places of self-estimation, self-exaltation, self-satisfaction. Down so as to be delivered from all ambition and emulation and envy. Down, and safe, thank God, from all pride, all high- mindedness, and all stout-heartedness.
Suffering comes with the mission of trying what stuff a man is made of, and it leads to closer knowledge of God, which is blessed; to lowlier self-estimation, which is also blessed; and to renewed outward blessings, which hide the old scars and gladden the tortured heart. Job's final word to God is in beautiful contrast with much of his former unmeasured utterances.
It may show itself in very different ways, taking now a more active form, as an impulse of self-assertion, and a desire to enforce one's own will to the suppression of others' wills, and at another time wearing the appearance of a passive emotion, an elementary form of amour propre. And it is this feeling which forms the germ of the self-estimation of adults.
And do they themselves, as some of the individuals to whom this duty might thus be distributively assigned, do they themselves, in spite of self-love, self-estimation, and all the sentiments which they will at other times indulge in homage of their own importance, do they, when this assignment is attempted to be made to them, instantly and willingly surrender to a feeling of crumbling down from this proud individuality into an undistinguishable existence in the mass; and, profaning the language of religion, say to the State, "In thee we live, move, and have a being?"
Finding that she could travel in safety and independence by means of the magic ring, her self-estimation had risen to such a height, that she disdained to stoop to the companionship of the greatest man living.
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