But to confound these products of their own mind with revelation is the error only of the uninstructed or the wilfully self-deluded.

There were wise men and self-deluded fools, manly, well-bred men, and effeminate, conceited coxcombs, who wore stays and did up their back hair, used paint, and daubed their cheeks with violet powder.

"At any rate, she is a poor, self-deluded creature.

The Germany of to-day hides, under the self-deluding appearance of a confinement to purely esthetic problems, a predominating and lively joy in the growth of the Fatherland, and naturally also in its mental broadening.

But, however that may be, we do earnestly exhort him to abandon the self-deluding practice of being his own publisher.

The Queen, who had remarked with apprehension the growing passion of her royal consort for the young Princess, was overjoyed at the contemplated marriage, believing as she did that she must have been self-deluded, as it was beyond credibility that, had she been correct in her surmises, Henry would have sought to unite the object of his preference to his own nephew.

The people who selfishly seek to enjoy as much comfort and ease as they can in an existing state of things, with the desperate maxim, 'After us, the deluge,' are not any worse than those who cherish present comfort and case and take the world as it comes, in the fatuous and self-deluding hope, 'After us, the millennium.'

Old Harriet may have been lying, but was, I imagine, merely self-deluded.

He, of all men, must surely be the last to imagine such a vain thing about himself; but even should he be so self-deluded, his immense coarse usefulness to his day and generation remains, and the value of it can hardly be overestimated.

And, since the self-deluding sight, In a false angle takes each height, These tears which better measure all.

And yet I verily believe the fellow was sincere,self-deluded only.