Sordid Ignorance and a Brute Manner of Life this Generous Prince beheld and contemned from the Light of his own Genius.
Evil kings are branded with this, that they contemnedthe prophets.
And 'twas so the vulgar sort contemned them, as men ignorant of the most elementary and ordinary things; as presumptuous and insolent.
A mere contempt to himself, the self that contemned was a coward with the self it contemned!
The general impression was that she had left him for preferable society, and no one wondered at her throwing aside such "a dry old stick," whom even the devoted slaves of business contemned as having nothing in him but business.
How could I look up, if I were to be pointed at wherever I moved, as the future husband of this justly contemned widow of Count Altheim?
Is creation, and the image of God in a rational, free soul, a thing thus to be contemned for nothing?
God iscontemned by them that think they are behind his back.
Not that man is absolutely to be contemned or disregarded.
As Ezekiel was the son of Buzi, "Contemned of God," Pastor Russell was born the child of a nominal religious system which is unfaithful to Jehovah.
An inward voice told him that his more experienced senior might be right, but at the same time he hated and contemned himself for listening to its warnings at all.
Her lofty calmness of demeanor had given way to a restless mood such as she had always contemned severely in others, since she had ceased to be a vehement child and grown to be a woman.
Yezd is now the great seat of the Guebres and of their religion; but they are more poor and more contemned in Persia, than the most miserable of the Jews in Turkey.
As he was but of mean extraction, he met with no respect, but was only contemned by his subjects, in the beginning of his reign.
These are the temples and monuments which I desire to erect in your breasts: for works of marble and brass, raised to the glory of princes, are contemnedby posterity as so many naked sepulchres, when their memory is condemned.
Leonides the King of the Lacedemonians, defendyng the narow straights of the cytie Thermopolie with fower thousand men against the mightie and huge armie of Xerxes, for Xerxes contemned [Sidenote: Leonides kyng of the Lacedemo- nians.
They looked upon it as a kind of prison for the soul, and a thing to be hated and contemned as you would a tyrant with a rope around your neck.
My Lords, I find that fasting is commanded in the Scripture; therefore I were a slanderer of the Gospel if I contemned fasting.
It is not strange that, when they find that their opinion is contemnedand neglected by the Legislature, they should lend a too favourable ear to worthless agitators.
He has been unjustlycontemned as a sciolist; he was the correspondent of Leibnitz, Le Clerc, and Bayle, and was a learned author when scarcely a man.
He who had contemned the eminent men of former times, and quarrelled with and ridiculed every contemporary genius; who had affected to laugh at the literary fame he could not obtain,--at length came to scorn himself!
Yet Spizelius is not to be contemned because he is verbose and heavy; he has reflected more deeply than Valerianus, by opening the moral causes of those calamities which he describes.
It was not in the nature of a man humbled from a high place, mocked by the lowly, derided by those whom he had oppressed, contemned by the false friends he had favored, to come back on an errand of revenge.
Ascalon was believed to be, in truth, far beyond the limit of that gentle art, which was despised and contemned by the men who roamed their herds over the free grass lands, and the gamesters who flourished at their expense.
True, had she asked her own heart why she had yielded thus far to a power she contemned and despised, she might have found there was a weakness in her own bosom which counseled caution.
For he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made void his precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.
For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda, for he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord.
In its intense and one-sided regard for morality, Puritanism not only relegated the love for beauty to an inferior place, but contemned and spat upon it, as something sinful and degrading.
Previous to the eighteenth century any attempt to deal with the life of Jesus upon purely historical methods would have been not only contemned as irrational, but stigmatized as impious.
That punyschment suld be appointed for suche as dissobeyid or contemned the superintendentes in thair functioun.
Alexander, Earle of Douglas, being uerie potent in kine and friendis, contemned all the kingis officeris, in respect of his great puissance.
As he was but of mean extraction, he met with no respect, and was contemned by his subjects in the beginning of his reign.
