We see in it plain evidence of the marked supernatural mission which he believed himself to be executing, and which would not allow him to rest or employ himself in other ways.
He believed himselfto be in direct communion with God; he believed himself to be the Son of God.
Jesus only lived for his Father and the divine mission which he believed himself destined to fulfill.
The moment he had contracted a debt of gratitude, he believed himself obliged to pay interest upon it all his life, even had he discharged his debt.
The chevalier, in spite of his blind faith in his destiny, which, according to him, was to become as beautiful as it had heretofore been miserable, believed himself at times in a dream.
At length he believed himself compelled, for the good of his people, to part with all but a mere remnant of the property.
He believed himselfin love with her, and had told her so; but the truest love such a man can feel, is a poor thing.
As Valdivia was accompanied by a considerable number of men he believed himself in condition to resist this mandate, and refused the earnest solicitations of Hinojosa to go back along with him to the president.
He was besides so puffed up by the victory which he had gained over the viceroy, that he believed himself able to resist any power which could now be brought against him.
Ignoring the chain of incredible events which had brought them to this smoky den, he believed himself to be the plaything of some strange hallucination, and thought of Gambara and Giardini as two abstractions.
At sixty-seven years of age he believed himself twenty-five, and lived accordingly.
He believed himself to have renewed the days of the preaching of the Apostles, and attributed to himself all the honour.
He was not wanting in learning, but the knowledge which he believed himself to possess destroyed the learning which he had in reality.
The second piece of news was that Bomback had fled and had been captured at Mitau, where he believed himself in safety.
The advocate said that his client was a sort of madman who was ready to do anything, as he believed himself to be dying from the effects of a slow poison.
Montanus was another person who evidently believed himselfto be an Angel-Messiah.
He believed himself to be even rendering a service to the nation in thus forestalling events, in seizing on the Spanish revolution beforehand, and in guiding it at once to the goal which he thought it destined to reach.
Singular in every respect, he believed himself to be vastly superior to the rest of the world, and nevertheless he was afraid of superiority in others.
He was, or believed himself to be, or wished others to believe that he was, invited by a host of distinguished well-wishers there to come and take up his residence among them.
If by "Reformation" we mean only the work which Luther believed himself to be doing, we must limit our answer to the somewhat scanty acknowledgment he was ready to make of his indebtedness to Erasmus as a scholar.
It had been so long since he had experienced remorse that he believed himself incapable of it.
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