Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...harsh. A man can never outgrow the stigma attached to his name for an act of dishonesty widely known. However hard he may try to be upright in after life, however far removed from his true character deceit may be, this one heedless act will expose him to the scorn of all the world and will prevent his becoming a useful man. Finding no man who trusts him, his career is doomed in advance to failure. The publishing of his name has branded him for life...
This is far different from bigotry. Liberality permits us to be men of the firmest convictions, fearless of all that is fault. It does not give us a scorn for other creeds, but brings us confidence in our own and makes the truth more evident. Let the world know the truth. Let the church be known, and the beauty of her features will make every man do her reverence...
...nation. But the life of Jesus was the greatest moral venture ever undertaken. If we were to measure the life of Jesus from first to last, from the present business and political standpoints, it would seem to be a monumental failure. His own nation rejected his teaching with malignant scorn. He had to go among sinners to get a following. To men of reasonable minds and methods his opposition to the order of things then existing seemed outrageous. It seemed as if nothing were safe while this man lived...
...have abused the privileges of the Library have been so often exposed and held up to scorn that it is a wonder they, and others like them, do not take a warning. Ever since the fine system has been introduced a certain set of men have made it a business to keep books for days and even for weeks after they were due. I have been very anxious to get a certain book due February 1, but the gentleman who has it now is bound to keep it out of circulation. Several offences of a similar nature have been reported...
...real property, but I am of opinion that those only are real possessions which abide with a man after he has been stripped of those others falsely so called, and which alone save him from seeming and from being the miserable forked radish to which the bitter scorn of Lear degraded every child of Adam. The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature will defy fortune and outlive calamity. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot be alienated. "Books," says Wordsworth, "are a real world," and he was thinking, doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs...