These recompenses are worse than pensions: they are equally unfounded in the constitution, more incapable of being governed by any rule, and more susceptible of great and dangerous abuse.
National recompenses are high rewards, and require express powers to grant them in every limited government.
They have pretended to render their morality more sacred by inviting us to look for recompenses and punishments removed beyond this life, but which they announce in the name of the Divinity.
Feeling that it was impossible to defend himself, the Marechal de Villeroy whispered his name to the officer, and promised him ten thousand pistoles, a regiment, and the grandest recompenses from the King, to be allowed to escape.
The nature and extent of the recompenses for time and trouble, and the reward of those who hazard their own lives in the rescue of others, would form another important branch of the Institution for the labours of this Committee.
These have been the recompenses received by you for the pure flame with which your zeal for the religion of Mahomet has ever burned.
The Sultan was greatly pleased at the spectacle, and as the mournful procession defiled before him cried out, "See how heavenrecompenses the brave!
The good people here look upon their children with a fondness that more than recompenses their care of them.
The kindness of your last recompenses me for the injustice of your former letter; but you cannot sure be angry at my little resentment.
It recompenses them for their sufferings; it renders them laborious, because to the greatest toils it attaches the greatest rewards.
The want of meaning she supplies with words, and the want of spirit she recompenses with malignity.
Although recompenses and punishments may be only secondary means by which men may be led to do good and avoid evil, this should not be their essential office nor their real idea.
We call the sanction of a law the body of recompenses and punishments attached to the execution or violation of the law.
As to recompenses and rewards they were regulated in this voyage much higher than was expressed in the first part of this book.
The other brothers made their answers separately, that they feared not a passing death, but everlasting torments; and that having before their eyes the immortal recompenses of the just, they despised the threats of men.
I happened to be amongst the soldiers of Martin Antolinez, and thanks to that, I know exactly to what extent those men deserve the recompenses which the Campeador has bestowed on them, and promised to bestow on them.
Well, tell us, then, what recompensesthey have received?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recompenses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
