Vanity Sentence Examples

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  • She was sitting at the vanity table brushing her hair when he returned.

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  • All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky.

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  • Whether the name was given in mere vanity to the barrier which Alexander passed (as Arrian and others repeatedly allege), or was founded also on some verbal confusion, cannot be stated.

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  • As a historian, I know it has been the vanity of every age to think it represents a high point in history.

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  • The mainspring is vanity, assisted by the love of garlic and bread and butter.

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  • He is always charming, but he is rarely inspiring, except in a very few passages where the sense of vanity and nothingness possesses him with unusual strength.

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  • With a touch of vanity he expressed the fear lest "the coolness of fancy that attends advanced years should make me risk the reputation I had acquired."

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  • From the day when Pierre, after leaving the Rostovs' with Natasha's grateful look fresh in his mind, had gazed at the comet that seemed to be fixed in the sky and felt that something new was appearing on his own horizon--from that day the problem of the vanity and uselessness of all earthly things, that had incessantly tormented him, no longer presented itself.

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  • Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality--these are the enchanted circle I cannot escape from.

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  • He was amiable and even estimable, the chief fault of his character being vanity and an incurable tendency towards theatrical effect, which makes his travels, memoirs and other personal records as well as his historical works radically untrustworthy.

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  • This story is probably an attempt to conceal a great disaster and to soothe the vanity of the Romans by accounts of legendary exploits.

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  • There he discredited himself by his vanity, and shocked even the populace of Madrid by appearing drunk at the theatre.

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  • Inset vanity mirror with tiled edging & a wooden pelmet over with inset spotlights.

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  • His vanity, his pride of opinion and his inborn contentiousness were serious handicaps to him in his political career.

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  • With all his faults, and in spite of no slight amount of personal vanity, President Faure was a shrewd political observer and a good man of business.

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  • In the Itthon (At Home), by Alois Degre (1877), the tale is made the medium for a satirical attack upon official corruption and Hungarian national vanity; and in the Almok dlmodoja (Dreamer of Dreams), by John Asboth (1878), other national defects are aimed at.

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  • He displays his own vanity, frivolity and futile cleverness with much unconscious humour, but, it is only fair to allow, with some literary dexterity.

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  • The predisposing circumstances which affected Montaigne were thus likely to incline him to scepticism, to ethical musings on the vanity of life and the like.

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  • The scepticism of Joseph Glanvill, which is set forth in his two works The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661) and Scepsis scientifica (1665), has more interest for Englishmen.

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  • He does not consider the possibility of deriving enjoyment from wealth by helping the poor or encouraging learning (this latter, indeed, he looks on as vanity), and in general he recognizes no obligation on the part of a man to his fellows.

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  • This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

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  • The only reason for an individual to buy a club is personal vanity.

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  • A brass and glass vanity with a white, wicker stool stood across the room.

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  • The vanity is constructed from solid birch and finished in cinder (black).

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  • He had been accused of vanity and ostentation in his office, but his reputation for ability and integrity as a judge was high even with his enemies.

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  • In the steps that led to these wars and in their conduct the egotistic ambition and the vanity of the king played an important part; though he never showed real military skill and took no share in any military operations except in certain sieges.

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  • The instinctive certainty that there is a supreme good, lying beyond empirical experience, and yet not an intellectual good - this feeling, and the accompanying conviction of the utter vanity of all earthly things, were produced and sustained by Neoplatonism.

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  • They are deeply separated by religious differences, and their mutual jealousies, their inordinate vanity, English Miles 0 5 io 20 30 40 50 Railways Capitals of Vilayets &c. C Longitude East 42 of Greenwich their versatility and their cosmopolitan character must always be an obstacle to the realization of the dreams of the nationalists.

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  • Maybe it was vanity, but it was hard to believe his interest in her wasn't genuine.

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  • Mario Testino's images taken for Vanity Fair magazine turned out to be the last official portrait photographs of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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  • Some offer easy access wardrobe shelving behind the vanity mirror door.

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  • A 1998 Vanity Fair Cover clearly signed " Love Madonna " by pop superstar.

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  • True, she falsely trifled with his love; but he, perhaps, was only trifling with her vanity.

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  • It's not quite a vanity project, but it is the second movie by the Broken Lizard comedy troupe.

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  • The second bathroom comprises marble-topped vanity unit, shower, WC and heated towel rail.

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  • The Laurel vanity unit teamed with a quadrant shower enclosure and fabulous 4 jet shower panel.

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  • I suppose you might say a lot of it was pure vanity.

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  • Therefore, do not confuse the external values of fleeting human vanity with spiritual enlightenment.

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  • If I feel that that's just my own vanity, and I don't take my own vanity that seriously.

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  • First the engineer's coffee maker catches fire on the bathroom vanity.

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  • It is a foul bauble of man's vanity.

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  • Johnson saw with more envy than became so great a man the villa, the plate, the china, the Brussels carpet, which the little mimic had got by repeating, with grimaces and gesticulations, what wiser men had written; and the exquisitely sensitive vanity of Garrick was galled by the thought that, while all the rest of the world was applauding him, he could obtain from one morose cynic, whose opinion it was impossible to despise, scarcely any compliment not acidulated with scorn.

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  • He pictured the vanity of his diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre's happiness.

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  • What can you expect to find from Vanity Fair?

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  • He was also criticized for his vanity and perpetual references to his own achievements.

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  • His vanity, however, as has been admirably remarked, is essentially that of " the peacock, not of the gander," and is redeemed by his willingness to raise a laugh at his own expense (Strachan-Davidson, p. 192).

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  • This misdirected will is punished by finding that the objects after which it thirsts are in truth vanity and emptiness.

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  • The disaster was avowedly due entirely to Varus's incapacity and vanity, and might no doubt have been repaired by leaders of the calibre of Tiberius and Germanicus.

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  • It was a very small, very disingenuous, inevitably an anomalous, and in the vanity of proclamations and other concomitant incidents rather a ridiculous affair; and fortunately for the dignity of history - and for Fremont - it was quickly merged in a larger question, when Commodore John Drake Sloat (1780-1867) on the 7th of July raised the flag of the United States over Monterey, proclaiming California a part of the United States.

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  • Denying any form of moral sense or conscience, he regards all the social virtues as evolved from the instinct for self-preservation, the give-and-take arrangements between the partners in a defensive and offensive alliance, and the feelings of pride and vanity artificially fed by politicians, as an antidote to dissension and chaos.

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  • His prestige and his good qualities, carefully fostered by Seneca, made him popular, while his childish vanity, ungovernable selfishness and savage temper were as yet unsuspected.

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  • He had alienated the sympathy of the aristocratic classes of Chile by his personal vanity and ambition.

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  • Energy was worn out, patriotic 'os' Seiscen-- ardour declined into blind nationalist vanity, and rhetoric conquered style.

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  • It is not indeed possible to deny that in the Oracle of the Bottle, besides its merely jocular and fantastic sense, there is a certain "echo," as it has been called, "of the conclusion of the preacher," a certain acknowledgment of the vanity of things.

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  • Gross exaggerations, such as those in which Valerius Antias indulged, he roundly denounces, and with equal plainness of speech he condemns the family vanity which had so constantly corrupted and distorted the truth.

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  • There came a time, however, when Clement and more particularly his following had to acknowledge the vanity of these illusive dreams; and before his death, which took place on the 16th of September 1394, he realized the impossibility of overcoming by brute force an opposition which was founded on the convictions of the greater part of Catholic Europe, and discerned among his adherents the germs of disaffection.

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  • The practice is not a primitive one; Tertullian simply advises Christians to avoid vanity in dressing their hair, and Jerome deprecates both long and closely cropped hair.

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  • William remained unconvinced and Swift's vanity received a useful lesson.

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  • After that event Riaz, subordinating his vanity to his patriotism, accepted office as minister of the interior under Sherif Pasha.

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  • But, as he wrote to Young in 1824, in him "that sensibility, or that vanity, which people call love of glory" had been blunted.

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  • Like his own Christian in the cage, he found protectors even among the crowd at Vanity Fair.

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  • Bunyan has told us, with very pardonable vanity, that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands, and was thought worthy to appear in the most superb binding.

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  • Many an earnest heart full of disappointment or enthusiasm has gone through a similar struggle, has learnt to look upon all earthly gains and hopes as worse than vanity, has envied the calm life of the cloister, troubled by none of these things, and has longed for an opportunity of entire selfsurrender to abstinence and meditation.

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  • The vanity, egotism and petulance of Boscovich provoked his rivals and made him many enemies, so that in hope of peace he was driven to frequent change of residence.

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  • This attack he followed up with The Monikins (1835) and The American Democrat (1835); with several sets of notes on his travels and experiences in Europe, among which may be remarked his England (1837), in three volumes, a burst of vanity and illtemper; and with Homeward Bound, and Home as Found (1838), noticeable as containing a highly idealized portrait of himself.

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  • As a satirist and observer he is simply the "Cooper who 's written six volumes to prove he's as good as a Lord" of Lowell's clever portrait; his enormous vanity and his irritability find vent in a sort of dull violence, which is exceedingly tiresome.

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  • In the dignity and simplicity of the old backwoodsman there is something almost Hebraic. With his naïve vanity and strong reverent piety, his valiant wariness, his discriminating cruelty, his fine natural sense of right and wrong, his rough limpid honesty, his kindly humour, his picturesque dialect, and his rare skill in woodcraft, he has all the breadth and roundness of a type and all the eccentricities and peculiarities of a portrait.

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  • He is convinced that virtue (where it is more than a mere pretence) is purely artificial; but not quite certain whether it is a useless trammel of appetites and passions that are advantageous to society, or a device creditable to the politicians who introduced it by playing upon the " pride and vanity " of the " silly creature man."

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  • The influence of the professional literary class kept the clan spirit alive with their elaborate genealogies, and in their poems they only pandered to the vanity and vices of their patrons.

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  • The condition of the country afforded full scope for the jealousy, hatred, cupidity and vanity which characterize the tribal state of political society.

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  • It was written before the medieval period had been properly investigated, is wordy, and largely spoilt by displays of national vanity.

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  • Still disturbed by the nightmare, she rifled through Hannah.s vanity to see if her sister left her appointment book in a drawer.

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  • The case study was the TV adaptation of Vanity Fair.

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  • Bathroom, basin bath with Jacuzzi & shower, bidet, toilet & vanity unit.

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  • She's beautiful, truthful, and hilarious, without vanity or affectation, exceptionally clever " .

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  • Suite including fully tiled shower cubicle with shower, vanity wash hand basin with cupboards under.

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  • How exactly we read Ecclesiastes as a whole and relate the joy passages to the vanity passages remains a controversial point.

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  • Here the dance takes off with everyday people entangled in vanity reflected in an unseen mirror.

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  • We operate three traditional, gaff rigged sailing vessels, including Golden Vanity, a 53 ' Gaff Cutter.

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  • His vanity is obvious, and culminates in his rather hideous ginger wig.

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  • Daring, utterly original and possessing a keen intelligence, Jim Sclavunos ' The Vanity Set demands your immediate attention.

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  • You purchase a vanity car license plate with your screen name on it.

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  • I have more personal vanity than modesty, and twice as much veracity as the two put together.

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  • The fitted furniture includes a vanity unit with an inset wash basin, an abundance of drawers, some cupboards and a glass shelf.

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  • Ceramic bathroom vanity units and designer washstands are ideal when searching for a bathroom addition that will last.

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  • Whatever part vanity or the flattery of courtiers may have played with others, or with Alexander, it is significant that the dynasties of Alexander's various successors all claim divine honours of some sort (see Ptolemies, Seleucid Dynasty, &c.).

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  • His vanity and egotism are undeniable, but they are redeemed by his fancy and his humour.

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  • Alexander the Great is one of the instances of the vanity of appealing from contemporary disputes to "the verdict of posterity"; his character and his policy are estimated to-day as variously as ever.

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  • The tawdry and exaggerated rhetoric; the petty vanity and jealousies; the weak sentimentalism; the utter incapacity for proportioning means to ends, and for grasping the stern realities of things, which so commonly disfigure the lives and conduct even of the more honest members of his class, were wholly alien to his nature.

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  • The De Institutione Coenobiorum (twelve books) describes the dress, the food, the devotional exercises, the discipline and the special spiritual dangers of monastic life in the East (gluttony, unchastity, avarice, anger, gloom, apathy, vanity and pride).

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  • Shortly afterwards, with his vanity and love of popularity inflamed, he pandered to the passions of the lower orders by the publication of his Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens which, with an almost fiendish reference to the excesses of the mob, he headed by a quotation from St John, Qui male agit odit lucem.

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  • He was impetuous, intense and often vehement, unflinchingly courageous, devoted with his whole soul to the cause he had espoused; but his vanity, his pride of opinion and his inborn contentiousness were serious handicaps to him in his political career.

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  • Let the young man enjoy all the pleasures of youth, putting away everything painful, before the time comes when his bodily powers decay and he can enjoy nothing."To relieve the apparent Epicureanism of this passage, an editor has inserted reminders of the vanity of youthful pleasures, and admonitions to remember God and His judgment.

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  • The government for reasons of their own made the socialist Babeuf the leader of the conspiracy, though more important people than he were implicated; and his own vanity played admirably into their hands.

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  • But scattered through all these alternate outbursts of hope and despair we find precious lessons of purest morality, and solemn warnings against the tricks and perfidy of the world, the vanity of all earthly splendour and greatness, the folly and injustice of men, and the hypocrisy, frivolity and viciousness of fashionable society and princely courts in particular.

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  • Among the merits of Herodotus as an historian, the most prominent are the diligence with which he collected his materials, the candour and impartiality with which he has placed his facts before the reader, the absence of party bias and undue national vanity, and the breadth of his conception of the historian's office.

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  • This latter belief, which was, moreover, flattering to their vanity, the Greek leaders were astute enough to foster; the propaganda of Adamantios Coraes (q.v.) had done its work; and wily brigands, like Odysseus of Ithaka, assuming the style and trappings of antiquity, posed as the champions of classic culture against the barbarian.

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  • In the dignity and simplicity of the old backwoodsman there is something almost Hebraic. With his naïve vanity and strong reverent piety, his valiant wariness, his discriminating cruelty, his fine natural sense of right and wrong, his rough limpid honesty, his kindly humour, his picturesque dialect, and his rare skill in woodcraft, he has all the breadth and roundness of a type and all the eccentricities and peculiarities of a portrait.

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  • None of these was more quarrelsome than Napper Tandy, who was exceedingly conceited, and habitually drunken; his vanity was wounded to find himself of less account than Tone in the councils of the conspirators.

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  • He was the very opposite of Richelieu, as wheedling in his ways as the other had been haughty and scornful, as devoid of vanity and rancour as Richelieu had been full of jealous care for his authority; he was gentle where the other had been passionate and irritable, with an intelligence as great and more supple, and a far more grasping nature.

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  • It 's not quite a vanity project, but it is the second movie by the Broken Lizard comedy troupe.

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  • If I feel that that 's just my own vanity, and I do n't take my own vanity that seriously.

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  • Double glazed Georgian bar window to side, vanity basin set in unit, heavily beamed ceilings, open beams to the side.

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  • Also each room has a sink & vanity unit with shaving electric point.

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  • Fitted dressing table with drawers and matching vanity mirror.

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  • First the engineer 's coffee maker catches fire on the bathroom vanity.

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  • It is a foul bauble of man 's vanity.

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  • Joseph had more than the vanity of man, he had that of lecturers.

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  • Vanity Fair, or the VF Factory Outlet Mall is a version of the retail store where prices have been reduced on many items.

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  • The initial store simply sold clothing and other surplus items manufactured by both Berkshire and Vanity Fair.

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  • All of these items are brand name items including products from Lee, Wrangler, Nautica, Vanity Fair, Majestic, JanSport, Angels, Derek Heart, Timber Creek, Riders, Reef, Olga, Warner's, and a host of other brand name inventory.

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  • Sport Cards - Many major and minor league teams are featured on these vanity cards.

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  • However, there are also jewelry armoires that are made to look like small desks, drop leaf cabinets or a lady's vanity, complete with a mirror and bench.

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  • Even in a shared bedroom, a women's vanity is her oasis, a place completely her own.

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  • Common vanity shapes are kidney-shape or rectangular.

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  • A good and cost-effective alternative to buying a vanity is making your own piece.

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  • Begin by designing the shape of your vanity.

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  • To finish the vanity, you can cover the top with fabric, pulling it taut and securing it with a staple gun.

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  • Alternately, you can stain or paint the vanity, perhaps adding a skirt just to the sides.

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  • You can even have a mirror cut to fit the top of the vanity for a little extra glamour.

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  • A mirror is essential, if not already built into your vanity.

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  • Silver or brass comb and brush sets make great vanity accessories - and gifts.

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  • Estate sales and even eBay are good places to pick up unique vanity accessory items.

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  • If you have a vanity table or footboard, try a bench or stool covered in animal hide for an eye-catching western accent.

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  • If space and the budget allows, a bookcase or media stand can be included and a vanity is nice for a girl's room.

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  • If you are designing on a budget, consider buying a long vanity dresser (sans mirror) and re-purposing it for office supply storage as opposed to clothing storage.

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  • Remove everything from the top of your dresser, vanity and end tables that is not necessary like old magazines and that book you finished reading months ago.

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  • If feminine is your style than add a vanity, adorn the walls with floral prints in soft colors and put a big fluffy rug on the floor.

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  • De-clutter - Remove everything from the top of your dresser, vanity and end tables that is not necessary.

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  • When selecting yours, pick the one that matches with your existing or new fixtures, especially the vanity.

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  • A contemporary vanity must be fashionable and functional.

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  • With so many shapes, sizes, colors, heights, depths and materials to choose from, picking the right vanity should not be a hassle.

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  • Even if you find the 'perfect' vanity, make sure it fits your bathroom space.

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  • The color of your vanity must match with the rest of the bathroom color scheme and fixtures.

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  • The vanity's shelving space is important; choose one in accordance to your needs.

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  • Remember, the vanity and sink will dictate the faucet's design, do not buy one that doesn't make the vanity and sink look good.

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  • Another great idea for storage is a recessed 8-inch deep bath cabinet above the vanity to hold items that you would normally keep on display on a countertop.

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  • In addition to overhead lighting, consider installing sconces to flank the vanity mirror, or multi-bulb theatrical strips.

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  • Install some above a vanity table or dresser.

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  • Frameless mirrors can be used to fill an entire alcove above a vanity from wall to wall, opening and visually enlarging the space.

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  • Free standing cabinets that sit on the vanity or on the floor are sometimes available with a mirrored front as well.

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  • Some ladies prefer to do makeup application in the bathroom, however, others prefer a vanity in the bedroom.

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  • In this case, you would need to pick out a nice vanity table and mirror.

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  • A lighted makeup mirror on your vanity table is excellent for helping apply makeup.

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  • Keep vanity cabinets in natural wood tones; most natural woods will darken and age over time in the bathroom with exposure to steam.

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  • If you are able to apply your makeup in natural daylight, or have a brightly lit makeup vanity, bathroom, or other area with direct lighting, you may not need a 10x makeup mirror with lighting.

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  • Other women may prefer a small alcove seated at her makeup vanity with a free-standing mirror.

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  • It is free-standing, but is also mountable to wall or vanity.

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  • This oval mirror can be mounted or propped against a wall or vanity to use, and includes an extra long cord for easy access to electrical outlets.

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  • Vanity mirrors, compact mirrors and magnifying makeup mirrors are just a few of the products offered from the aptly-named Magic Focus.

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  • Place the bottom of the brush handle on a hard surface, such as a vanity or bathroom counter, and tap down firmly once or twice.

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  • Not only does it look stunning on a vanity, it also makes a beautiful gift for an avid perfume collector.

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  • Possibly no other vanity accessory comes quite as close to accomplishing what the perfume bottle does with its unique designs, unconventional methods of crafting, and variety of uses.

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  • Also known as vanity tables, they're designed to keep your beauty must-haves in one place.

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  • Elegant and practically fit for a princess, this feminine Suzanne Vanity and Chair Set manages to squeeze a lot onto a rather small platform.

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  • The included vanity chair is the perfect finishing touch.

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  • The vanity runs $1499 and the chair is $639.

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  • Old world charm is easily achieved with this delicate Chentil Vanity and Chair Set.

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  • The vanity is $959, while the chair is $509.

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  • With its deep, regal finish, this Heirloom Cherry Vanity Table with Bench leaves nothing behind in offering class and functionality all at once.

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  • The trick with this product is to have the elbows steady and on a flat surface (if you love this look, invest in a vanity table).

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  • In addition to their ease of organization, most train cases serve as a full service vanity area complete with a mirrored lid to boot, which makes on the go cosmetic application both easy and convenient.

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  • Consider it the instant antidote to a dull, dreary day, a miracle worker when you don't look or feel your best and an adorable piece of eye candy to add a flash of color to your vanity.

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  • Soft and so smooth, the metallic pink material looks adorable sitting atop any vanity and exudes a light gleam under the lights.

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  • Then I got comfortable at my vanity table.I tapped the ends of my top eyelashes with the mascara wand with the tip, one eye at time.

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  • These have historically been known as vanity presses, and have not been looked upon kindly by the publishing world for good reason.

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  • Testino’s fame skyrocketed after taking photos of Princess Diana relaxing on couches and pillows in a series of informal poses for Vanity Fair magazine in July 1997, a month before her tragic death in a Paris car crash.

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  • Bring the outside in by using long branches for curtain rods, and placing a bowl of pine cones on the bathroom vanity.

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  • Many websites sell western-themed towels, towel racks, vanity sets and shower hooks.

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  • Her pouty lips and numerous tattoos are her most recognizable features putting her at the top of many lists of sexy and beautiful celebs, including those from Vanity Fair, FHM magazine, and People.

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  • She has also photographed images for an award-wining American Express campaign and for Vanity Fair magazine.

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  • She has also told Access Hollywood and Vanity Fair that she questions monogamy, saying if hubby Chris were to cheat, she just wouldn't want to know.

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  • She posed nude for the February 2006 issue of Vanity Fair with Keira Knightley and fashion designer Tom Ford.

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  • She appeared on a July 2003 Vanity Fair cover alongside female stars Lindsay Lohan, the Olsen Twins, Mandy Moore, and Hilary Duff, among others.

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  • Vanity Fair (2004) - This film's cast included Reese Witherspoon and Gabriel Byrne.

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  • Even more main stream magazines like Vanity Fair and Maxim have showed a little nudity here and there, though these publications tend to at least attempt to cover up their subjects.

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  • Demi Moore - Demi Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine twice.

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  • Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley - This pair posed for the cover of Vanity Fair in 2006, both in the buff, alongside fully dressed fashion designer Tom Ford.

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  • When asked about the denials, Nicole responded with a candid interview in Vanity Fair regarding her past two miscarriages with ex-husband Tom Cruise.

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  • Never one to shy away from controversy, Moore posed nude on the cover of Vanity Fair when she was seven months pregnant.

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  • Her husband Jeff Richmond told Vanity Fair that Fey had been shocked, but "she just thought somebody marked her with a pen."

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  • In the same Vanity Fair interview, Fey said that she never let the scar hold her back.

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  • Sources close the pair leaked stories about their troubles, but the most convincing evidence that the separation was old news came in the timing of a Vanity Fair cover story featuring Lopez.

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  • You can pair these intricately adorned gowns with matching shoes, which your daughter can model in the mirror of her new princess vanity that actually talks!

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  • There's nothing inherently wrong with adorably dressed babies, but a small part of infant shopping can be used to boost a parent's vanity.

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  • As a popular guitar associated with the great rock act Van Halen, these guitars are often a guitarist's dream vanity guitar.

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  • It is important to pay particular attention to your bathroom vanity because it is often used as the centerpiece for bathroom design.

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  • Lack of storage is often the reason homeowners want to install a new vanity in the bathroom.

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  • It is important to find a vanity with cabinets that has enough storage for all of your cleaners and other bathroom products.

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  • If you do not need storage, you might be a candidate for a pedestal vanity.

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  • If you and your spouse have typical business hours and are bumping into each other when brushing your teeth in the morning, you might want to consider a two sink vanity.

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  • With many different styles of bathroom vanities on the market today, ranging from the most traditional to the most modern, finding a vanity that matches not only the bathroom but also the home décor can be difficult.

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  • Wood Base Vanities - With a wood base vanity, your possibilities are endless.

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  • You can have a vanity made of cherry, oak, or other woods.

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  • If antique is what you're looking for, you can transform a beautiful piece of furniture into a vanity.

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  • For example, a Victorian style dresser would make an exquisite vanity with the right accessories.

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  • Natural Stone Vanity Tops - Usually made of marble or granite, although other options might be available depending on your bathroom budget, natural stone vanity tops have many benefits.

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  • A natural stone vanity is a one of a kind vanity; no one else will have a vanity top with the same color markings.

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  • Frosted Glass Vanities - Modern style is the basis of the frosted glass vanity.

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  • Many glass vanities work with a vessel sink, which mounts on the vanity top, giving you a stylish and sophisticated look for your bathroom.

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  • Stainless Steel Vanity - With the stainless steel look so popular in the kitchen, it wasn't long before it made it into the bathroom.

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  • A stainless steel vanity is a popular look for anyone who wants to emphasize clean style in the bathroom.

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  • Pedestal Vanities - This style is not just the basic white cold-looking vanity that we are all used to.

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  • If you have a small bathroom but want to add dramatic style, a pedestal vanity will give you the look you want without using all the space.

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  • With many different designs and styles to choose from, you will be able to find a vanity that looks as if it were built for a king, but designed for your bathroom.

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  • Finding the right vanity for your bathroom can be difficult.

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  • Choose a mirror style that matches the vanity style.

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  • The edges of the mirror should not extend beyond the width of the vanity.

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  • All the vanity tops are pre-cut to specifically fit Kohler's under-counter sinks.

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  • Each vanity offered by Kohler has an entire coordinating bathroom suite including sink, faucet, bathtub, toilet and mirror.

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  • The Archer vanity is 24 inches long and fits a 24-inch sink basin.

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  • It has one drawer at the bottom of the vanity for storage and is finished in Kohler's dark black forest stain.

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  • The lines of the vanity cabinet are simple and straight on the sides with no embellishments.

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  • This vanity accommodates 25-inch integrated sinks and is offered in both 24- and 48-inch lengths.

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  • This vanity has a contemporary design and is only seven inches deep.

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  • The two main things to consider before buy a Kohler vanity is that they are relatively expensive compared to other brands and they are designed to fit only Kohler sinks.

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  • Vanity lights, wall sconces, and lamp shades-Other Hampton Bay products include vanity lights and wall sconces.

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  • If you place a large vanity with a very small light fixture, suddenly an average size vanity will seem huge and the room will look out of scale.

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  • Invest in wire shelving for the inside of your vanity doors, and replace a flat wall mirror with a medicine cabinet that has storage.

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  • If this is your only bathroom, it's probably not a good idea, but if this is a second or third bathroom, it might solve your space problems and give you room for that nice heated towel rack or larger vanity you've been thinking about.

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  • A few years ago, options for double sink vanity cabinets were limited, but the popularity of this type of installation is helping to make more sizes and styles available for the do it yourselfer.

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  • Even though you can cram a 65 inch double sink vanity into your bathroom, it doesn't mean that you should.

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  • When budgeting for your double vanity, take lighting and mirrors into consideration.

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  • Leather look tiles such as Akdo's Pelle can be used with a leather vanity from Neo Metro and accented with glass tiles for a stunning look.

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  • Leather-look tiles such as Akdo's Pelle can be used with a leather vanity from Neo Metro and accented with glass tiles for a stunning look.

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  • In a room where floor space matters, cutting back a few inches on the tub or vanity can make a huge difference in the scope of your bathroom.

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  • Of course, there are many companies out there that will customize a tub or vanity for you, but taking that road does increase the cost of your renovation substantially.

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  • If floor space is a minimum, you can ditch the vanity entirely and install a pedestal sink or a wall-mounted sink in its place.

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  • Consider setting two of them side by side on a double vanity to showcase the subtle variations in each artistically hand blow piece.

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  • Sit this sink on a simple wooden vanity top and let it take center stage.

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  • Use good bathroom lighting above the vanity and simple counters to avoid competing with the sink itself.

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  • Replacing the vanity with a new one can be done for less than a hundred dollars and a fresh coat of paint will cover up all of the strange marks that somehow get on the bathroom walls when you have kids.

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  • Another choice is the Vanity Fair Classic Short Robe.

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  • Look for well-known brands, such as Vanity Fair, Lily of France, Lilyette, Chantelle and many more.

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  • Vanity Fair Tailored Spin Cami gives you two styles in one.

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  • From a vanity point of view, Eagle Eye will keep your crows' feet at bay.

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  • Most people opt to go into the bathroom while others choose to remove their contacts seated in front of a vanity mirror.

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  • Most people place their contact lens case on their vanity or bathroom counter.

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  • For example, you may need to find the match behind the vanity mirror in order to light a piece of paper on fire.

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  • Some sacrifice vanity in the name of a film role that calls for shoulder-length locks or wild curly hair.

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  • Without commitment and increased ease of use, straightening irons are a vanity staple whose end is nowhere in sight.

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  • But with the pregnant Demi Moore cover photo that appeared in Vanity Fair in 1991, it has became more commonplace for women to show off their expanding waistlines.

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  • Bitten and Bound has a photo of Angelina in a sexy black bikini from her July 2008 Vanity Fair cover.

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  • That's why the quick one-two punch of what some consider racy photographs in Vanity Fair magazine, and arguably, even racier photos on her MySpace page, caught so many by surprise.

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  • It also features bath time accessories such as vanity and mirror, hair dryer, clothes hangers and stickers for personalizing the set.

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  • Putting forth your best, clean, groomed, and aptly dressed self is not an issue of vanity.

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  • That package would certainly help the winning writer transition from a vanity press to future paid writing work, but technically the prize still doesn't equal a job.

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  • Her designs have been featured in national fashion magazines such as Cosmo, Vanity Fair, Woman's World, Life &Style, People, and more.

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  • When you've settled in at your hotel, place this sweet Landor and Hawa Vanity Case on the counter for a personal touch.

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  • Some of the cases are a bit too large for small children, but there is a 14-inch vanity case that could be used as an overnight bag.

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  • They tell everyone you're trying too hard to fit into a size too small because of vanity issues or because they didn't have your size and you really wanted this style.

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  • She made the choice out of vanity, because she was a model and wanted to continue pursuing her career.

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  • To satisfy the vanity in everyone, Seiko proudly imbued this model with a sense of fashion by giving it a deep black watch face and luminous hands.

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  • Another category of cheerleading quotes belongs in the realm of advice given from one cheerleader to another, ranging from exhortations of courage to cautionary phrases about the dangers of letting ego and vanity get the better of you.

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  • After decades of success, Barbizon was sold to Vanity Fair and was eventually phased out.

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  • Some of the brands sold include Vanity Fair, Maidenform, Van Raalte and Barbizon.

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  • The economy was going into an upswing and it was time to celebrate by embracing curves and flirting with a little extra vanity.

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  • Flip-flop the nylon/spandex Vanity Fair Reversible Neckline Slip at JCPenney to suit your dress's neck - whether it is v-neck or straight.

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  • In addition to featuring a wide range of styles and fabric choices, you can browse the selections of your favorite designers such as Calvin Klein or Vanity Fair.

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  • Low rise thongs suggest a type of promiscuity and vanity that is not popular in religious sects and any other organization where humbleness and community players are key.

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  • Best of all, calling it "compression wear" instead of "shapewear" appeals more to men concerned about being called out for vanity.

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  • Many women have found that the Vanity Fair Enchanted Lace Underwire bra does the trick when it comes to sloping shoulders.

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  • Heavenly Vintage Lingerie - they mostly carry items by known designers such as Vanity Fair.

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  • The see through nightgown was made popular in the 1950s by fashion designers like Van Raalte and lingerie companies like Vanity Fair.

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  • She says that even though parents may be reluctant to buy their teens sports bras that they see as "padded," in this case padding is not meant to be a vanity feature of the bra.

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  • Vanity Fair Lingerie offers a wide selection of elegant intimate apparel that you can wear during the day and night.

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  • Vanity Fair bras come in variations suitable for different tops and different bust sizes.

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  • Depending on your particular support needs, you'll find a bra from Vanity Fair that will give you exactly what you're looking for.

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  • Vanity Fair offers a full range of panties, from high-cut briefs to hipsters to boy shorts.

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  • If you like additional coverage or prefer to wear camisoles in place of bras, the Vanity Fair lingerie line offers a selection which will work under office garments or your sexy date night attire.

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  • Because Vanity Fair is a respected and recognizable name in lingerie that's easy to find in person as well as online, you should have no trouble finding the bras, panties, camisoles, slips and more that you need.

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  • Specials on Vanity Fair wear are fairly common.

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  • Whether vintage or brand-new, Vanity Fair nightgowns are desirable sleepwear that make bedtime a special occasion.

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  • While many lingerie manufacturers were forced by rationing to abandon silk during World War II, Vanity Fair nightgowns only stopped being made in silk in 1948.

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  • With innovations such as animal prints (these were new and wild in the 1950s) and an emphasis on beautiful design, it's no wonder Vanity Fair is still a name to remember.

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  • Vanity Fair is not the major name in nightgowns as it once was, although its sleepwear is certainly still valued by those who buy it.

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  • Although Vanity Fair is still making pajamas and robes, it doesn't seem to be making as many nightgowns as it used to.

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  • Vanity Fair's nightgown selection is famous for having some of the most elegant and romantic nightgowns designed.

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  • It's no wonder vintage Vanity Fair nightgowns are still so prized.

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  • Although most vintage shops will have a lingerie section, if your heart is set on a Vanity Fair nightgown, you are best off shopping online at specialty retailers.

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  • Designers include Vanity Fair, Gossard Artemis, Shadowline, Van Raalte and Deena Laros.

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  • Though offers from other majors came in, the band decided they wanted to do things their own way and founded their own Vanity Label imprint.

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  • In 2008, a photo shoot Cyrus did with Vanity Fair magazine kicked up new controversy.

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  • Disney and Cyrus herself blamed famed photographer Annie Liebovitz, but Vanity Fair released information about the session suggesting that Cyrus' father and Cyrus viewed the photo and approved it.

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  • They believe that the genre reflects a culture that worships vanity and wealth, rather than virtue and humility.

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  • She has many high level clients including Vanity Fair magazine, Ralph Lauren, and Saks.

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  • Before beginning her jail sentence, Alexis told a Vanity Fair interviewer that she was at Bloom's house but was too intoxicated to know what was going on.

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  • Now it also inspires fragrances, as proven by this L'Occitane White Tea Vanity Set.

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  • Oncologists may have little patience for patient vanity during cancer treatment, but this is unreasonable.

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  • Display it on a vanity or at the edge of the tub to show it off, and pour some into your water to reap lavender's pampering rewards.

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  • Maximilian was also a writer of books, and his writings display his inordinate vanity.

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  • Like another Socrates, he taught them to know themselves, repressing vanity, encouraging the despondent, and attaching all alike by his unobtrusive sympathy.

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  • Perhaps the most characteristic example of unsystematic pessimism is the language of Ecclesiastes, who concludes that "all is vanity."

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  • His vanity made him order the surgeons to cut out a bone which protruded below the knee and spoilt the symmetry of his leg.

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  • They protested against the multiplication of slaves from motives of vanity in the houses of the great, against the gladiatorial combats (ultimately abolished by the noble self-devotion of a monk) and against the consignment of slaves to the theatrical profession, which was often a school of corruption.

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  • A charming style, a vivid fancy, exhaustive research, were not to be expected from a hard-worked barrister; but he must certainly be held responsible for the frequent plagiarisms, the still more frequent inaccuracies of detail, the colossal vanity which obtrudes on almost every page,'the hasty insinuations against the memory of the great departed who were to him as giants, and the petty sneers which he condescends to print against his own contemporaries, with whom he was living from day to day on terms of apparently sincere friendship.

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  • I have still as much vanity as ever, which is a happier passion by far, because great reputation I think I may acquire and keep, great situation I never can acquire, nor if acquired keep, without making sacrifices that I never will make."

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  • Brought up a Lutheran, and fond of pleasure, she had shown no liking for Scottish Calvinism, and soon incurred rebukes on account of her religion, "vanity," absence from church, "night waking and balling."

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  • Mutesa was a clever man of restless energy, but regardless of human life and suffering, and consumed by vanity.

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  • As the earlier Renaissance had specially occupied itself with the practical business and pleasures of life, so the later Renaissance specially mused on the vanity of this business and these pleasures.

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  • As monk in the neighbouring monastery of Euprepius, and afterwards as presbyter, he became celebrated in the diocese for his asceticism, his orthodoxy and his eloquence; hostile critics, such as the church historian Socrates, allege that his arrogance and vanity were hardly less conspicuous.

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  • And when literary jealousy was complicated with theological differences, as in the case of the free-thinkers, or with French vanity, as in that of Budaeus, the cause of the enemy was espoused by a party and a nation.

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  • The general's vanity lent itself to what was asked of it; after various symptoms of insubordination had shown themselves, he was deprived of his command in 1888 for twice coming to Paris without leave, and finally on the recommendation of a council of inquiry composed of five generals, his name was removed from the army list.

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  • At first he seemed inclined to act with moderation and on lines of constitutional agitation, but soon, carried away by fanaticism, ambition and vanity, he turned to armed organization against the government.

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  • It is rather a family panegyric than a scientific history, in which the affection of the daughter and the vanity of the author stand out prominently.

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  • This Order Was Interrupted To Gratify The Vanity Of Augustus, By Giving The Month Bearing His Name As Many Days As July, Which Was Named After The First Caesar.

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  • In the end the vanity and featherheadedness of Ibn Ammar drove his master to kill him.

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  • This conversion, which took place in 1374, appears to have been due partly to the effects of a dangerous illness and partly to the influence of henry de Calcar, the learned and pious prior of the Carthusian monastery at Munnikhuizen near Arnhem, who had remonstrated with him on the vanity of his life.

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  • Adroit politicians flattered the king's vanity, defended his follies and taught him how to violate the spirit of the constitution while keeping the letter of the law.

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  • I cannot say there is no vanity in making this funeral oration of myself, but I hope it is not a misplaced one; and this is a matter of fact which is easily cleansed and ascertained."

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  • His most essential qualities are vanity, weakness, inconstancy, presumption.

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  • Babington's conduct was marked by open folly and vanity.

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  • In January 1749 he published The Vanity of Human Wishes, an excellent imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal, for which he received fifteen guineas.

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  • The famous Hirsch trial, and Voltaire's vanity and caprice, greatly lowered him in the esteem of the king, who, on his side, irritated his guest by often requiring him to correct bad verses, and by making him the object of rude banter.

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  • His unwearied activity and inordinate vanity led him to undertake a great many costly public works, many of them, such as the erection of palaces and churches, unremunerative.

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  • It flattered his vanity to pose before the world as the dispenser of benefits; but his theoretical liberalism was mated with an autocratic will which brooked no contradiction.

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  • He denied - he never ceased to deny - his share in the guilt, and Mary worked on his vanity and his fears, and moulded his " heart of wax " to her will.

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  • Hence what is not strictly allegorical after the fashion of the Romaunt of the Rose or Chaucer's exercises in that kind, is for the most part occasional, dealing with courtiers' sorrow and fun, with the conventional plaints on the vanity of the world and with pious ejaculation.

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  • Though his eloquence had done more than anything else to make practicable a union of the British North American provinces, he opposed confederation, largely owing to wounded vanity; but on finding it impossible to obtain from the imperial authorities the repeal of the British North America Act, he refused to join his associates in the extreme measures which were advocated, and on the promise from the Canadian government of better financial terms to his native province, entered (on the 30th of January 1869) the cabinet of Sir John Macdonald as president of the council.

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  • But that it consists in the extension of a wide sympathy to all human affairs, together with a comprehension of their vanity, may be said as safely as anything else.

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  • Instead of a closet, a large wardrobe stood at one end of the room, dwarfing a vanity desk with a large oval mirror.

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  • In the Anecdota Procopius adds as an illustration of Justinian's vanity the story that he took in good faith an observation made to him by Tribonian, while sitting as assessor, that he (Tribonian) greatly feared that the emperor might some day, on account of his piety, be suddenly carried up into heaven.

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  • Only the vicissitudes of life can show us its vanity and develop our innate love of death or of rebirth to a new life.

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  • When the fleet was constructed on the Hydaspes, Onesicritus was appointed chief pilot (in his vanity he calls himself commander), and in this capacity accompanied Nearchus on the voyage from the mouth of the Indus to the Persian gulf.

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  • Her uncle considered that she ought to be kept as long as possible from the knowledge of her position, which might raise a large growth of pride or vanity in her and make her unmanageable; so Victoria was twelve years old before she knew that she was to wear a crown.

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  • Seward himself, apparently sharing these views, although not out of vanity, at first possessed an unbounded confidence in his ability to influence the president and his cabinet.

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  • His statesmanship, though marred occasionally by personal vanity and love of popular applause, was far-seeing and prudent.

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  • The subject of this youthful effort was suggested, its author says, by a refinement of vanity - " the desire of justifying and praising the object of a favourite pursuit," namely, the study of ancient literature.

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  • But, whatever our doubts, we may safely regard Parsifal as a work which, like Beethoven's last fugues, invites attack rather from those critics who demand what flatters their own vanity than from those who wish to be inspired by what they could never have foreseen for themselves.

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  • These works appear to have been erected by powerful sovereigns with unlimited command of labour, possibly with the object of giving employment to subjugated people, while feeding the vanity or pleasing the taste of the conqueror.

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  • Glanvill's first work (a passage in which suggested the theme of Matthew Arnold's Scholar Gipsy), The Vanity of Dogmatizing, or Confidence in Opinions, manifested in a Discourse of the shortness and uncertainty of our Knowledge, and its Causes, with Reflexions on Peripateticism, and an Apology for Philosophy (1661), is interesting as showing one special direction in which the new method of the Cartesian philosophy might be developed.

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  • P Y administrative abilities of his father, and the success of his reign was not commensurate with the vanity of the ruler.

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  • His vanity was certainly excessive; but I have no doubt that, in his public conduct as well as in his writings, he was desirous of doing good, that his ambition was of the noblest kind, anti that he proposed to himself the noblest ends.

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  • Pascal and other members of Port Royal openly expressed their doubts about the place allowed to God in the system; the adherents of Gassendi met it by resuscitating atoms; and the Aristotelians maintained their substantial forms as of old; the Jesuits argued against the arguments for the being of God, and against the theory of innate ideas; whilst Pierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721), bishop of Avranches, once a Cartesian himself, made a vigorous onslaught on the contempt in which his former comrades held literature and history, and enlarged on the vanity of all human aspirations after rational truth.

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  • His patronage was exercised, not from vanity or a mere dilettante love of letters, but with a view to the higher interest of the state.

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  • In his zeal for orthodoxy, indeed, Frederick William outstripped his minister; he even blamed W6llner's "idleness and vanity" for the inevitable failure of the attempt to regulate opinion from above, and in 1794 deprived him of one of his secular offices in order that he might have more time "to devote himself to the things of God"; in edict after edict the king continued to the end of his reign to make regulations "in order to maintain in his states a true and active Christianity, as the path to genuine fear of God."

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  • Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother's vanity as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this plan perfectly worthless.

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  • That the emperor had an honest and soldierly satisfaction in his own well-doing is clear; but if he had had anything like the vanity of a Domitian, the senate, ever eager to outrun a ruler's taste for flattery, would never have kept within such moderate bounds.

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