But Philipson's father, who is the most free-hearted of men, will surely give his son as many zechins as will stock a mountain farm.
Let me add that so far as the great Goethe is concerned, it is by no Puritan yard-stick that I am measuring him, but by the German's own high standard whichdespises any mating of true sentiment with commercialism.
They sometimes forget the country in the office; while the older nobility, which made Germany, despises the office except as an instrument or weapon to be used for the welfare of the country.
No one now despises an unselfish woman simply because she prefers to remain single; but formerly old maids were looked on nearly everywhere with a contempt that reached its climax among the Southern Slavs, who, according to Krauss (Ploss, II.
Who hears you hears me," our Lord has said: "who despises you despises me.
He who is disabused by the simple experience of life, despises the world, while he who is disabused by light from on High esteems it.
But though I am poor, I do not desire the acquaintance of anybody that despises me.
The Arab is ignorant of all these things, or, if he knows them, he despises their possession.
Yea, the nearer and more immediate the calamity, the more secure it is and the more readily it despises all faithful admonitions.
But Cain despises the twofold admonition, and indulges his sin, as all the wicked do.
This means that the Holy Spirit is grieved when we miserable men are distracted and tormented by the wickedness of the world, that despises the Word we preach by the Holy Spirit.
Ham hears that he is accursed; but inasmuch as the curse does not go into immediate effect, he securely despises and derides the same.
Their only wealth is what the world despises and persecutes.
Today the great throng, hearing that common tasks are preached in the Gospel, despises the Gospel as a vulgar teaching, lacking in elegance.
Furthermore, it is so entirely fettered by the love of created things that even after it has learned to know God from his Word, it disregards him and despises his Word.
Cain acts directly against this law, and shows that he not only cares nothing for it, but absolutely despises it.
Besides, if you try the scientific experiment of asking her whether she loves me, she'll tell you that she hates and despises me.
Aye; but a savage knows not, anddespises forgiveness.
He despises the majority of his companions and labels them as Philistines.
He makes vows to break himself of the habit, fails, and despises himself.
An anarch, pure and complex, he despises all methods.
He who despises most things will be a lawgiver among them, and he who dares most of all will be most in right.
She despises conventional men, and is herself compact of conventionality.
He never took writing as seriously as Dostoievsky; in Tolstoy there is a strong leaven of the aristocrat, the man who rather despises a mere pen worker.
She is great in cheese and bitter-beer, in claret-cup and still champagne, but she despises the puerilities of sweets or of effervescing wines.
The most shelter a Patagonian can endure is a little heap of rocks or a log to the windward of him; as for clothes, he despises them, and he is indifferent to ornament.
The ugliest man despises himself; but Zarathustra said in his Prologue: "I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.
In his feverish scurry to find entertainment and diversion, whether in a novel, a newspaper, or a play, the modern man condemns his own age utterly; for he shows that in his heart of hearts he despises himself.
The noble type of man separates from himself the beings in whom the opposite of this exalted, proud disposition displays itself he despises them.
He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself thereby, as a despiser.
This skepticismdespises and nevertheless grasps; it undermines and takes possession; it does not believe, but it does not thereby lose itself; it gives the spirit a dangerous liberty, but it keeps strict guard over the heart.
Not that he knows that I ever did smoke; I should be precious sorry if he did, for I know how he despises it in boys.
Rank brings cares; so that one who is not a stoic may have an excuse for shrinking from it; but a stoic despises cares.
The Lord hates you and despises you, and you must crawl to His feet like beaten hounds, and entreat Him not to strike you into hell as He intends"?
But a poor man who despisesthe poor--he has no excuse.
Your faults are many and great; your native town knows them, and despises you.
Nothing could be more unnatural for him than the revolutionary principle which despises tradition and regards the patriotic sentiment as superfluous and irrational.
He despises the old mythology and the romantic symbolism because the theory was obviously absurd to a man of the world, and to common sense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "despises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
