However, the problem in Hemmingsen’ssermon,quoted above, was that doctrinal purity was not enough when the audience despisedthe Word–they also had to embrace the Word, repent, and lead a Christian life. Thus,a central question to Hemmingsen’s authorship was what the necessary principles for...
As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican Party, Lincoln confronted Radical Republicans, who demanded harsher treatment of the South; War Democrats, who rallied a large faction of former opponents into his camp; anti-war Democrats (called Copperheads), who despised him; and ...
However, it was considered undignified (and effeminate) by the elite, who despised the emperor. While Nero was responsible for the death of both Britannicus and his mother, Agrippina, the elimination of rivals was not an uncommon practice at the imperial court. It is possible that Agrippina ...
The only person he didn’t excommunicate was his grandfather, who Miyazaki felt was the only person that cared about his personal happiness. He felt his younger sisters despised him, but felt he had a closer relationship with his older sister. In college, Miyazaki’s strangeness only deepened....
the charismatic future president despised having his picture taken at the time and would have to be dragged from the shower room when newspaper photographers wanted to photograph the team. Coaches later recalled that Kennedy was a bit frail as an athlete and looked like a lanky string bean but...
But over time it eventually became clear that they were desperately unhappy women; they hated men, despised family life, had no affection at all for children – and eventually didn’t have much to say to me. I liked men as friends and romantic partners, treasured a family life and held ...
Byron despised wars of aggression waged for personal gain while championing as honorable those conflicts that defended freedom, such as the battles of Marathon and Morat and the French Revolution. Bravura rhetoric animates the stanzas on Waterloo, from the memorable recreation of the Duchess of ...
This should not have been my fate. When I lived in the upper world, I despised the water—seas, lakes, wells, rivers, rain-collecting buckets, even the dew drops on the petals of poppies—I hated it all. I was a creature of air, flying through it, feeling it split in my wake, ...
who were being held incommunicado, remained in jail. Phillip’s request to interview them was denied. Told Nehru, whom he despised, was fasting, Churchill commented ‘We had no objection to his fasting to death..He is a thoroughly evil force, hostile to us in every fiber’…Churchill claime...
I waited. I remember that I did not like to wait and I despised waiting. I still do. I attribute this to uncomfortable childhood experiences. In line I was assaulted by my body, that thing, whose eating, pissing and sleeping crises (did I mention eating) reached a fever pitch as they...