Conceiting

We are always looking toward the future, talking about the future, "conceiting" for the future, as the Irish say. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)

Waverley was naturally modest, and therefore did not fall into the egregious mistake of supposing such minuter rules of military duty beneath his notice, or conceiting himself to be born a general, because he made an indifferent subaltern. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Light and warmth and comfort and safety -- they were all to come from the conceiting and the struggling of my Dour Man, fighting for an empty-headed family who were scarcely worth it. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)

This afternoon, tired of scheming and conceiting for the future, I had ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)

'Afther that I sickened awhile an' tuk thought to my reg'mental work; conceiting mesilf I wud study an 'be a sergint, an' a major-gineral twinty minutes afther that. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

'Afther that I sickened awhile an' tuk thought to my reg'mental work; conceiting mesilf I wud study an 'be a sargint, an' a major-gineral twinty minutes afther that. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

"There is absurdity," said Pope, "in man's conceiting himself the final cause of creation." ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

For the weak, by thinking themselves strong, are induced to venture and proclaim war against that which ruins them: and the strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are thereby rendered as unactive, and consequently as useless, as if they really were so. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

I laugh at his ridiculous presumption in conceiting that ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Phaskontes einai -- conceiting themselves to be wise. ❋ Unknown (1721)

And vain talkers and deceivers, conceiting themselves to be wise, but really foolish, and thence great talkers, falling into errors and mistakes, and fond of them, and studious and industrious to draw others into the same. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The absurdity of conceiting himself the final cause of the creation, or expecting that perfection in the moral world, which is not in the natural, ver. 131, &c. ❋ Alexander Pope (1716)

The absurdity of conceiting himself the final cause of the Creation, or expecting that perfection in the moral world, which is not in the natural, v. 131, etc. ❋ Alexander Pope (1716)

V.v. 131, &c. _The_ absurdity _of conceiting himself the _final cause ❋ Alexander Pope (1716)

It is great lewdness, and also insufferable arrogancy to come to the word of God, as conceiting already that whatever thou readest, must either by thee be understood, or of itself fall to the ground as a senseless error. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)