- in six
novels published between 1977 and 1983, he
struggles against the
satanic lord foul, 'the despiser', who
intends to
escape the
- was
overwhelmingly savage on the battlefield, but more
significantly to a
roman audience he was a
contemptor divum, a 'despiser of the gods.'
- 'my job, as i saw it, was to
defend the
christian faith against its 'cultured despisers,' to use
schleiermacher ’s phrase. to put it more
-
bernard calls them “despisers of
their fellows” and says “the
dominant idea of
these despisers of
their fellows is to find others’
- in
their final reply the
jesuits stigmatized brochmand as a 'disturber of the
roman empire, the
boldest despiser of his
imperial majesty - at
mount thunder,
covenant gives the
white gold ring
willingly to the despiser, an
action which was
foretold by lord foul upon covenant's
-
linden avery is
determined to save her
adopted son, jeremiah, from the
hands of the despiser. however,
before she
begins her search, it
-
stopping jeremiah,
infelice offers a
promise of the elohim's
protection for the boy, to
ensure he does not fall back into the despiser's hands.
- this
period of
rapid development was his
influential book,
reden über die
religion (on religion:
speeches to its
cultured despisers) (1799, ed.
- in the
presence of all her
despisers with a song
never uttered before she will rise and be gone in a
moment till the
great tribulation is
