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 claimed that the fighting was caused by bad blood between the Hindus and the Muslims, which was not true....
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 ...
If this psalm is post-Exilic, as most modern critics think, the cornerstone, in its first application, may be Israel regarded as a whole. The great builders, the rulers of Assyria, Babylon, Persia, had despised that stone; but it was chosen of God, and now it was set in Zion. It ...
She and her character became cultural touchstones, both loved and despised for many reasons: her revealing clothing, her rail-thin physique, her self-absorption, her fitness as feminist poster girl, etc. The Golden Globe-winning actress focused more on the work than on celebrity, earning goo...
A witch or Sorcerer was also a hermit, and these were normally people who despised others and preferred to be as reclusive as possible. Old Magicians like Gargamel who don't connect with others and spend their livelihood chasing down Smurfs for weird Alchemical Conconctions. We are living in...
and to preserve your holy house to yourselves.I allowed you a quiet exit out of it, and security for your preservation; nay, if you had a mind, I gave you leave to fight in another place.Yet have you still despised every one of my proposals,and have set fire to your holy house wit...
I have presented this to someone who said that the result is obvious since of course a baby cannot manage a crocodile. However, there is no requirement for the statements in a sorites to be true. Are illogical persons, including babies, reallydespised? This is a logic puzzle in which the...
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, ...
The aristocracy was alarmed at the powerful influence of the despised peasant priest Grigori Rasputin over the tsar. The severe military losses led to a collapse of morale at the front and at home, leading to the fall of the House of Romanov in the February Revolution of 1917. Nicholas ...
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...