Containing infallible nostrums for procuring universal disesteem and hatred. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
I would not, therefore, be thought to disesteem or dissuade the study of nature. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
Both, despite the disesteem it is fashionable to heap upon them, are honorable professions. From Wordnik.com. [INTERVIEW: John C. Wright] Reference
Nay, it is weakness and disesteem of a man's self, to put a man's life upon such ledger performances. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Cassius was much displeased at this answer; and among the rest, Atellius was had in much disesteem for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Let us not be so illiberal with our schemes for the renovation of society and nature, as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Uncollected Prose] Reference
If any person thinks the examination of the rest of the animal kingdom an unworthy task, he must hold in like disesteem the study of man. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
A man who is utterly alone in the approval of his actions is regarded as crazy or is driven so by the perpetual disesteem in which he is held. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
It is more than probable that their first laws will have the title only of Regulations and be enforced by no other penalty than public disesteem. From Wordnik.com. [Common Sense] Reference
And Tito winced under his new liability to disesteem. From Wordnik.com. [Romola] Reference
He says of himself that he now lived in a world of disesteem. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
A masculine woman and an effeminate man are in equal disesteem. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Maiden] Reference
The disesteem in which Tûs-ko-na, a notorious loafer at the Big Cypress. From Wordnik.com. [The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532] Reference
Containing infallible nostrums for procuring universal disesteem and hatred. From Wordnik.com. [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
If he does ill, even those who follow him in that, will not the less disesteem him. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Columbus] Reference
They did: he might speak of them with sharp impatience and seeming disesteem sometimes. From Wordnik.com. [The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little] Reference
Chapter iv -- Containing infallible nostrums for procuring universal disesteem and hatred. From Wordnik.com. [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
"What else can you do?" asked Judith with a noticeable abatement of her previous disesteem. From Wordnik.com. [The Bent Twig] Reference
Mr. Grayson; but there was no disrespect or disesteem in their use of the diminutive "Jimmy.". From Wordnik.com. [The Candidate A Political Romance] Reference
Nay, it is weakness and disesteem of a man's self to put a man's life upon such liedger performances. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
This does not save them from disesteem and deprecation, for they fall short under the test of honorific waste. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Were I truly humble, I would desire disesteem, even though having in the matter in hand given no real offence. From Wordnik.com. [Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings] Reference
The way to render human beings of any class despicable is to undervalue them; for disesteem will superinduce degeneracy. From Wordnik.com. [Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II] Reference
Well, from what little I heard, I said to myself, Here now is one with the unprofitable philosophy of disesteem for man. From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
The disesteem in which the slavetraders were held was so great and general in the Southern community as to produce a social ostracism. From Wordnik.com. [American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime] Reference
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
On Coleridge, critic, poet, philosopher, his judgment was that he "had no morals," and that his character inspired "disesteem, nay, repugnance.". From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
It is more than probable that their first laws will have the title only of REGULATIONS, and be enforced by no other penalty than public disesteem. From Wordnik.com. [Common Sense] Reference
He had persistently elevated Hellenic Paganism at the expense of Christianity; yet in that civilization an illegal surrender was not certain disesteem. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
What the people felt was the disesteem -- the term in vogue was stronger -- in which they were held by the Allies, whom they had saved perhaps from ruin. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference
It was moved and carried that no city or county official should be admitted to membership, a striking commentary on the disesteem in which such men were held. From Wordnik.com. [The Gray Dawn] Reference
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