That Wampus was proving himself a capable and faithful servant even the Major was forced to admit, yet the man's bombast and self-praise robbed him of any word of commendation he justly earned.

No vanity or self-praise on the ground of her life's labours ever found a place in her thoughts.

" "So much time has been spent in vain boasting, and extravagant self-praise," rejoined Isfendiyár, "that the day is nearly done, and I am hungry; let us therefore take some refreshment together."

But this man had not the childlike mind, neither did he tremble like the sinner; his thoughts were still the self-praising thoughts in which he had fallen asleep.

Upon that subject I never wavered throughout the whole of my career, and the testimony of the letters which I received from the most distinguished members of the criminal Barnot to say that they are not equally distinguished in the civilwill, I am sure, bear out my little self-praise upon a small matter of infinite importance.

Vanity N. vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self- complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation^, self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre

Still, for all that, there may be some truth in Bacon's remark that, as in the case of calumny, if you throw enough dirt, some of it will stick, so it it also in regard to self-praise; with the conclusion that self-praise, in small doses, is to be recommended.

Still, for all that, there may be some truth in Bacon's remark that, as in the case of calumny, if you throw enough dirt, some of it will stick, so it it also in regard to self-praise; with the conclusion that self-praise, in small doses, is to be recommended.

Are you given to ostentation and self-praise?

In a moment Jonas came back out of the parlor, and said, as he passed through, "Self-praise Goes but little ways;" a short piece of versification which all boys and girls would do well to remember.

The badness of his official productions indeed is something really wonderful,though not more so than the amazing self-complacency and self-praise with which they are given to the world.

Nothing is more common than for the victor to sound the praises of the vanquished, that being a delicate form of self-praise.

It is said that vain self-praise stinks in the nostrils.

I believe that the most deadly danger to our arms to-day lies in any whiff of that self-praise, any flavour of that moral cowardice, any glimpse of that impudent and ultimate impenitence, that may make one Boer or Scot or Welshman or Irishman or Indian feel that he is only smoothing the path for a second Prussia.

I do not care to boast, you understand, and to be forced into self-praise is abhorrent to me.

He begged them not to construe his remarks into self-praise, but to understand them as intending to simply show his unselfish interest in the prosperity of the Monastery.

We think praising one's own wife or one's own husband is praising a part of one's own self, and self-praise is regarded, to say the least, as bad taste among us,and I hope, among Christian nations too!

" "Self-praise is half scandal," said the woman; "I'm willin' to risk 'em if God sends 'em.

"Self-praise," you know!

When the capitalist had finished his self-praise and, flushed and satisfied, had sat down again, Bishop Grafton rose and said with quiet significance: 'Is there any other sinner that would like to say a word?'" CAREFULNESS Michael Dugan, a journeyman plumber, was sent by his employer to the Hightower mansion to repair a gas-leak in the drawing-room.