His plan to reduce the debt was met by so strenuous an opposition from the Republicans that it was defeated, and by the party which had been most persistent in their detestation of the obnoxious burden.
And do they expect to accomplish that purpose by holding us up to the scorn and contempt and detestation of the people of the Free States and the whole civilized world?
I make no secret of my love for the activities at which I am best and of my detestation of my duties.
He was so sure of Marcia's detestation of Furfur that he was never jealous of him, so sure of Furfur's complete subserviency to Marcia that he never feared betrayal by him.
However, my prejudice is good in one way; it enables me thoroughly to understand the detestationwith which they regard me and the like of me.
Richard Mutimer regarded withdetestation the principles to which Henry had sacrificed his life.
In the natural detestation of the Russian serf for his cruel oppressor the nobleman, he believed he could trace a substratum of simple- minded brotherly love, and that instinct which leads animals to hate the men who hunt them.
A number of the young Girondins were now meeting constantly at Madame Roland's, and their detestation of the Mountain was heightened and idealized by the enthusiasms of their charming hostess.
His attitude is too sternly impersonal for him to be moved by any emotions, whether of detestation or charity, as regards the Hun.
American soldiers who came to Europe to do a job and with no decided detestation of the Hun, are being taught by such landscapes.
It is a commentary on the detestation in which they held the Spaniards that they should have allied themselves for this purpose with the savages of the hinterland.
In fact, he had nothing at this moment in common with Lord Randolph except a personal detestation of Lord Derby.
General Grant's chief weakness, unless that position be assigned to his cigars, was his detestation of the Roman Catholics.
In Sir Charles's case there was no wavering between like and dislike: he carried on his grandfather's detestation of the lesser Napoleon.
Fawcett was largely moved by detestation of Sir Bartle Frere, and, while my chief object was to stop the war, his object was to force Frere to resign.
Sharing to the full the general detestation of these massacres, of which the earliest complete exposure had been made public [Footnote: See p.
I had likewise learned, from his example, an utter detestation of all falsehood or disguise; and truth appeared so amiable to me, that I determined upon sacrificing every thing to it.
When I happened to behold the reflection of my own form in a lake or fountain, I turned away my face in horror and detestation of myself, and could better endure the sight of a common Yahoo than of my own person.
They had a robust detestation of everything British.
Six years of stormy happenings had certainly bred in the nation a desire for constitutionalism and a detestation of military domination.
But this desire and detestation required firm leadership.
Finding that it was impossible to conquer the general detestation felt for them, the monarchists, led by Liang Shih-yi, changed their tactics and exhausted themselves in attempting to secure the issue of a general annesty decree.
He therefore urged the Achaeans not only to decline the offer, but to hold Eumenes in detestation for thinking of making it.
By his conversation Mohammed's detestation of idolatry was confirmed.
So great was their detestation of experimental science, that they thought they had gained a great advantage when the Accademia del Cimento was suppressed.
It is also said, that, when she entered her carriage in open day to go and join Arnold in the midst of the enemies of his country, no symptoms were exhibited of the detestation in which his name was held even by the lowest populace.
None hesitated to obey our summons, for the same detestation of our invaders animated the breasts of all.
Great as was my detestation of the horrible crime, I could not but pity deeply the unfortunate child whom despair had maddened.
He always said that my fear of Herr Foligno and my detestation of him misled me.
It will not be easy for you, Herr Professor, to make one to-morrow of Franz Schorn's party to the cave without allowing him to perceive your detestation of him.
An amusing anecdote is recorded of the detestation in which he was held by the people, and the ill treatment he would have met, had he fallen into their hands.
No name was once held in greater detestation in England than that of Talleyrand.
He saw that the essay's subject was a negro, a slave; and all his impassioned detestation of the latter term possessed him.
But there was nothing in her manner beyond the natural detestation of such brutality; nothing, he saw, hidden.
It was generally believed to be a massacre, equally barbarous and unprovoked; and it increased the detestation in which the soldiers were universally held.
