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In truth he wished to command the respect at once of courtiers and of philosophers, to be admired for attaining high dignities, and to be at the same time admired for despising them. Sunderland was Secretary of State. In this man the political immorality of his age was personified in the most lively manner.
But fearing that a retrograde movement might check the enthusiasm of the army, now elated with their rapid career of victory, underrating the difficulties of the country, and too much despising an enemy who had been so easily dispersed, he determined to ascend Wood Creek as far as Fort Anne, whence the direct distance to the Hudson is shorter.
But the Jewish citizens depending on their wealth, and on that account despising the Syrians, reproached them again, and hoped to provoke them by such reproaches.
The poison-water is exhibited in many variously coloured and tasted draughts, but however unlike each other they may be, it is always the same. The great effort of God's love is to press home this consciousness of despising His Name upon all hearts.
Helen never went on to the moor without finding him in wait for her, and always she went as to some unworthy tryst, despising herself for the appeasement she meted out to him, daring to do nothing else. Once more, she saw him as some animal that might be soothed with petting, but, thwarted, would turn fierce and do as he would with her.
People usually revenge themselves for having admired too much, by afterwards despising and depreciating without mercy in all great assemblies the perception of ridicule is quickly caught, and quickly too revealed.
The theory of a complete change of standards in human history does not merely deprive us of the pleasure of honouring our fathers; it deprives us even of the more modern and aristocratic pleasure of despising them.
And his choice wines would bring choice spirits to help him drink them; and then in the shade of the old trees they would have their table and sit over their wine the merriest, wittiest, wisest, most eloquent gathering in all the land. The others in their turn laughed at him, despising his ideal, and then we set off once more.
With two little brothers and a half-dozen black child-retainers, he hunted in the woods of Kennons, sailed boats on the red waters of the Roanoke, rode break-neck races over the old fields, despising fences high, and ditches deep, and vigorously sought specimens of uncouth, out-of-the-way beast, bird and insect.
Going straight forward to its end, unappalled by peril, unchecked by remorse, despising all common maxims and all common means, that hideous phantom overpowered those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist, except on the principles which habit rather than nature had persuaded them were necessary to their own particular welfare, and to their own ordinary modes of action.
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