Conceit

Like Girl With a Pearl Earring, Conceit is a vivid and intelligent novel with a complex female character at its heart.

Book Awards 2009

Like Girl With a Pearl Earring, Conceit is a vivid and intelligent novel with a complex female character at its heart.

BC Book Prizes 2008 winners 2008

Like Girl With a Pearl Earring, Conceit is a vivid and intelligent novel with a complex female character at its heart.

April 2008 2008

Conceit is the proud privilege of youth; and Monckton Milnes had a justifiable share of that great gift of the imperturbable gods.

Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters 1891

Yet many People are so fond of this Conceit, that is sometimes a difficult matter to read modern Books and Pamphlets, where the Words are so curtailed, and varied from their original Spelling, that whoever hath been used to plain English, will hardly know them by sight.

A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue 2003

"Really, Nannie," he said, "if one were ill with that horrid disease called Conceit, a quiet half hour with you on the deck of a boat would restore him to health."

The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Elizabeth Strong Worthington

I find likewise among the Ancients that ingenious kind of Conceit, which the Moderns distinguish by the Name of a _Rebus_, [2] that does not sink

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

'Conceit' as a verb occurs again in III, i, 193, and in

The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590

More precisely, in The Fatal Conceit Hayek traces it more precisely to Saint-Simon, although he does see Saint-Simon as representing the Cartesian tradition.

Hayek and Anti-capitalist Intellectuals, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Peaceful dispute resolution is a self-organizing system, which facilitates the expansion of activity (see Hayek - Fatal Conceit).

A Theory of Government, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009