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  • 1pride# — pride n Pride, vanity, vainglory are comparable when they mean the quality or the feeling of a person who is keenly or excessively aware of his own excellence or superiority. The same distinctions in implications and connotations are found in… …

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  • 2Count of St. Germain — Count Saint Germain redirects here. For other uses of St. Germain see Saint Germain (disambiguation). An engraving of the Count of St Germain by Nicolas Thomas made in 1783, after a painting then owned by the Marquise d Urfe and now apparently… …

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  • 3Recessional (poem) — Recessional is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, which he composed on the occasion of Queen Victoria s Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The poem expresses pride in the British Empire, but also an underlying sadness that the Empire might go the way of all… …

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  • 4biblical literature — Introduction       four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha.       The Old… …

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  • 5James 4 — 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3… …

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