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A third was formed by a sectarian, a self-erected prophet, who, while he attributed all power and rule to God, strove to get the real command of his comrades into his own hands.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Man has fallen from the self-erected pedestal of "superiority."

From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell

You impress more forcibly by retaining your native manner of statement; chastened where necessary, but not defaced by an imitation, even of a self-erected, yet artificial, standard.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

The following account of this self-erected concern will manifest the cause of its success.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Mackenzie, Alexander

There is something impressive and reverent in thus re-burying the relics of those dead ages and nations, whom the mysterious gloom of their self-erected tombs becomes better than the glare of the broad, curious daylight.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)