10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-FLATTERY»
Discover the use of
self-flattery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
self-flattery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Self-flattery is always available: it can be your first resort or your last. Care for
yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself. RULE 22: The most
seductive flattery flatters the You you wish to be. What else is encouragement?
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Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: ...
At the same time, an intriguing link is drawn between flattery to oneself and
flattery from others, who may use their words of praise to present themselves as
friends. Indeed, it is the tendency to indulge one's self in self-flattery that opens
up the ...
Albrecht Classen, Marilyn Sandidge, 2011
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The Works of Thomas Goodwin
Now, my brethren, to work this, to kill a natural man thus, that is alive through self-
flattery, and to lay him for dead, it is a mighty work. Why ? Because every man
having self-love in- him, self-flattery will never give up the ghost of itself ; all the ...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer ...
Because every man having self-love in him, self-flattery will never give up the
ghost of itself ; all the reasou a man hath will tight for arguments to prove himself
a living man. 'This same" self-flattery, which you are all born with, will struggle for
...
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The National Preacher Or Original Monthly Sermons from ...
... of the King of glory 1 SERMON CCXLIX BY WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE, D. D.
DESTRUCTIVE CONSEQUENCES OF SELF- FLATTERY. Proverbs xiv. 12. —
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of
death.
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The National Preacher and Village Pulpit: Original Monthly. ...
THE SELF-FLATTERY OF SINNERS. “ Be not deceived.”—Gal. vi. 7. “ WHEN a
person has brought a stain upon his character and stands before the public in the
attitude of a delinquent, the only way to regain his reputation and become ...
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The American National Preacher
... should cross the ocean, and travel over mountains, and submit to the most
painful sacrifices with a view to your relief ; and suppose, after 82 THE
NATIONAL PREACHER. "CCXLIX —Destructive Consequences of Self-flattery —
Dr Sprague 82.
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The Worcks of the Rev. Daniel Waterland...to which is ...
Now pride is founded in self -flattery ; and self-flattery is owing to an immoderate
desire of entertaining some kind of pleasing thoughts. It is a pleasing imagination
for a man to fancy himself possessed of uncommon privileges or endowments.
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The Perfect 10: The Blessings of Following God's ...
Self-flattery, a pleasing self-deception, is also a violation of God's law." To be
puffed up with vain conceit, to applaud and commend ourselves in our own
minds, and to think that we excel all others in what we have is a clandestine trap
of ...
Michael G. Moriarty, 1999
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The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, the Sin in ...
Self-Flattery—. The Foundation Stone Audience self-flattery, both overt and, more
often, implied, is the foundation stone of effective commercial communication.
Above all else, audiences must be told what they wish to hear about themselves.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-FLATTERY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
self-flattery is used in the context of the following news items.
Despite lowly electoral integrity ranking, Putrajaya says satisfied …
Sim, at a press conference, later described Putrajaya's explanation for the answer as a form of self-flattery. The survey was based on 49 indicators. Sim also said ... «The Malaysian Insider, Jun 15»
'I don't see myself returning to politics': George Yeo
“One should not engage in self-flattery about duty calling. I think most people who are in politics have a certain ambition, and I don't see myself having the ... «Channel News Asia, Jun 15»
The New Dallas Myth: Dallas Arts Week and the Self-Flattery of a …
April has become the epicenter of Dallas' arts and culture calendar. You can blame the good weather, as well as multiple arts organizations trying to build on ... «D Magazine, Apr 15»
Ben Stiller Talks About His 'Zoolander 2' Appearance at Paris …
After the self-flattery Stiller went all in on self-deprecation to balance the scales. "A lot of people say that Derek is not that smart, but I think the idea of doing a ... «Complex, Mar 15»
Football's thought police need to man up
It's just another nauseating exercise in middle-class self-flattery; another stick with which to beat the knuckle-dragging proles. Of course there is sexist chanting ... «Spiked, Mar 15»
You might want to sit down: Obama apparently lied about 'evolving …
But, first, a warning: The self-flattery masquerading as candor in the revelation that Obama lied to the public for the better party of his political career is tough to ... «Hot Air, Feb 15»
Mirror-imaging the Jihadis
... they slaughter a schoolhouse and burn a teacher alive, he engages in an obnoxious form of self-flattery. Only a babe in the woods, or a sheep quickly fleeced, ... «American Thinker, Dec 14»
Leaving Your Faith Isn't as Self-Flattering as You Think
Far from being a source of self-flattery, this is a source of shame. Rest assured, when I make fun of this stuff it's with the full realization that I'm poking fun at ... «Patheos, Dec 14»
Education Reformer Joel Klein Praised as “Creative,” “Passionate …
... but more importantly, it involves one of the most preposterously grandiose examples of self-flattery to ever appear in print. To argue the point that he should've ... «Slate Magazine, Nov 14»
Advice to Young Scholars
In fact, in our self-flattery we are, perhaps, among the most vulnerable. It is so easy to think of oneself as Socrates—until the hemlock is served. 4. 7+1. 0Vote. «First Things, Aug 14»
