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In short, M. Michelet thinks us, by fits and starts, admirable only that we are detestable; and he would adore some of our authors, were it not that so intensely he could have wished to kick them.
Bolingbroke did not confine his attacks to revealed religion. Philosophy fares as badly as religion in his estimate. 'It is the frantic mother of a frantic offspring. Plato is almost as detestable in his eyes as S. Paul. He has the most contemptuous opinion of his fellow-creatures, and declares that they are incapable of understanding the attributes of the Deity.
She turned over and over in her mind whether she ought to tell all this to Mrs. Menotti. Perhaps she might be able to find some other employment for Rico than this fiddling in the public-houses for dancing, that was so detestable to the lad. But the thought of troubling Mrs. Menotti with her affairs passed quickly from her mind as she entered the room again.
Jones into his ear. "Can there be a more disgusting spectacle? It's enough to make the earth detestable. She seems to have found her affinity. Move on closer. If I have to shoot you in the end, then perhaps you will die cured." Heyst obeyed the pushing pressure of a revolver barrel between his shoulders. He felt it distinctly, but he did not feel the ground under his feet.
He spoke in the detestable idiom of the Oriental Jew. Benda was politely cold. The main point was still to come: “Vineta” had aroused Wurzelmann’s profound admiration; he had read the score on the side: “A great talent, Doctor, a talent such as we have not had for a long, long while,” said Wurzelmann. “Yes, but what am I to say about Herr Dörmaul’s opinion?” asked Benda.
And in a great number of cases, mere considerations of money and the like keep a man bound. But conscience and habit detestable habit and fear of public opinion generally hold him. 'All this is very interesting, said Rhoda, with grave irony. 'By-the-bye, under the head of detestable habit you would put love of children? Barfoot hesitated. 'That's a motive I oughtn't to have left out.
He is detestable, Rosamund replied. 'You think he ought to be whipped? She feigned an extremity of vindictiveness, and twisted her brows in comic apology for the unfeminine sentiment, as she said: 'I really do.
It must be SOMEBODY you love, not abstract love in itself. How can you sacrifice yourself to an abstraction." "Ha, I think Love and your Christ detestable," said Lilly "a sheer ignominy." "Finest thing the world has produced," said Jim. "No. A thing which sets itself up to be betrayed! No, it's foul. Don't you see it's the Judas principle you really worship. Judas is the real hero.
Notwithstanding all this, the greater part of so vilely abused parents are so timorous and afraid of devils and hobgoblins, and so deeply plunged in superstition, that they dare not gainsay nor contradict, much less oppose and resist those unnatural and impious actions, when the mole-catcher hath been present at the perpetrating of the fact, and a party contractor and covenanter in that detestable bargain.
She was in no position to see them: she was incapable of hearing them. The demon in her urged her on: she attempted to reiterate the detestable falsehood. Her first word died away in silence. The lean brown fingers of the Italian woman had her by the throat held her as the claws of a tigress might have held her. Her eyes rolled in the mute agony of an appeal for help. In vain! in vain!
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