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  • It may be because I'm starting to turn my mind towards a class I'm teaching on the Four Dignities of Tibetan Buddhism but it strikes me that the qualities of the first of the four, the tiger, might apply directly to what you are going through in your breakup.

    Lodro Rinzler: The Buddhist Approach To Dealing With An Ex Lodro Rinzler 2010

  • It may be because I'm starting to turn my mind towards a class I'm teaching on the Four Dignities of Tibetan Buddhism but it strikes me that the qualities of the first of the four, the tiger, might apply directly to what you are going through in your breakup.

    Lodro Rinzler: The Buddhist Approach To Dealing With An Ex Lodro Rinzler 2010

  • Times, when Kings and Princes thought it no Derogation to their Dignities.

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • Times, when Kings and Princes thought it no Derogation to their Dignities.

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • So I came hither, for fear of the Dignities, and asked the people who would protect me, to which they replied, ‘None but Ahmad al-Danaf.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Son, and Play − fellow in my Childhood, for which Cause I had continually patroniz'd him, and rais'd him and his Brother to these Dignities; and on the same Consideration conceal'd this Folly, thinking it was only the

    Exilius 2008

  • He stopped at the proper Distance of Respect, which was technically just out of reach of thrown weapon or spell, and granted the enthroned figure the Ninefold Dignities bow, not quite showing respect, not quite showing contempt.

    The Chaos Gate Lackey, Mercedes 1994

  • Here therefore we see the originals of English Dignities, Marquisates, Dukedoms,

    John Adams diary 10, includes legal notes, 24 January - 21 February 1765, August 1765 1961

  • So far from being independent, and having their Dignities and Power hereditary, they are annually at the Will, both of the House and the Governor, and therefore are not sufficiently independent, to hold such Powers of Judicature over the Lives and Fortunes of Mankind.

    John Adams diary 20, 28 February - 25 June 1774 1961

  • Titles and Dignities that will be perpetuated in my family, in a Word

    John Adams diary 16, 10 January 1771 - 28 [i.e. 27] November 1772 1961

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