We are sorry to observe also a reckless tone of disparagement running through Mr. Wilkes's book.
There was a good deal of disparagement and denunciation of absent authors and artists, which if the talkers had not been men of genius, Victor would certainly have thought ill-natured and spiteful.
It is nodisparagement to the leading statesmen of that era, that they did not at first propose measures adequate to the emergency, because no standards existed by which the magnitude of that emergency could be estimated.
The House itself exercised the power of appointment, to the greatdisparagement of the Speaker.
The disparagement of external rites and ordinances, which we have found in so many mystics, appears in William Law, though he was himself precise in observing all the rules of the English Church.
The second point in which St. Paul has been supposed to sanction an exaggerated form of Mysticism, is his extreme disparagement of external religion--of forms and ceremonies and holy days and the like.
That we can appreciate without the slightest disparagement on the score of politics.
There was nothing like disparagementin his tone towards me, but, on the contrary, an almost flattering appreciation of my ingenuity as a writer.
We must reject these “Greek presents:” and we are concerned that any Christian divine can so torture and desecrate the names of virtue, as to make them instruments of disparagement and injury.
The Roman Catholic religion; -- commonly used by the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.
Defn: One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise: And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
There was a slight, almost indescribable tone of condescension or disparagement in her voice, the reason of which I will explain.
I say not this in modest disparagement of the poem, but in sorrow for the sickly taste of the public in verse.
And this, with no disparagement to her, for the most faithful heart is in youth subject to growth and change, and not free as to the exercise of its own faithfulness.
It is a dishonour and disparagement to Christ that his family should be divided.
Or whether, when the scripture says, God is in hell, it is any disparagement to him?
Also it is a disparagement to a man that seeks his own glory in what he undertakes, to do that for a spurt, which he cannot continue and hold out in.
It is a disparagementto Christ, that any of his servants, and that any that name his name, should yet abide by, and continue with, iniquity.
Have always good and great thoughts of the grace of God; narrow and slender thoughts of it are a great disparagement to it.
When an army falls into mutiny and division, it reflects disparagement on him that hath the conduct of it.
The second are young men, professors of the Lute, who vaunt themselves to the disparagement of such as have been before their time (wherein I myself am a party), that there never was the like of them.
If originality of invention did not so much stamp almost every play of Shakspeare that to name one as the most original seems a disparagement to others, we might say that this great prerogative of genius was exercised above all in Lear.
His sermons on the Marriage Ring, on the House of Feasting, on the Apples of Sodom, may be named without disparagement to others, which perhaps ought to stand in equal place.
This feature of bigotry, which has thrown a shade over Isabella's otherwise beautiful character, might lead to a disparagement of her intellectual power compared with that of the English queen.
My disparagementof heaths and highlands--if I said any such thing in half earnest,--you must put down as a piece of the old Vulpine policy.
If we feel inclined to quarrel with Hawthorne anywhere, it is in his disparagement of Crawford.
He exalted himself, to the disparagement of his Maker, and God has punished him.
Not a word of disparagement of woman is found in those old cosmic lays.
And his disparagement of his learning, which Lord Macaulay ridicules as affectation, a more candid judgement may fairly ascribe to sincere modesty.
I have good reason to believe that he," etc, etc, etc; and here would follow some disparagement of the individual whose name was mentioned.
In this, I am sure, there is no disparagement of the scores of fearless soldiers who followed the guidon of that troop from Gettysburg to Appomattox.
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