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Example sentences for "looks upon"

  • He looks upon 'Mr. Robert' as his personal property, and I really believe he has always resented my presence as an intrusion.

  • In such a life pleasure consequently prevails decidedly over pain, and he looks upon existence, not as an evil, but as a great good.

  • In his life pain necessarily predominates, and he looks upon existence as an evil.

  • The pleasure with which one individual looks upon another is further increased by the solidarity of interests.

  • The law treats the manufacturer and the merchant with suspicion; it looks upon them as the sons of the slave and the freedman, or at least, as persons of no consideration, commoners whom it is permitted to treat without ceremony.

  • The face of the Revolutionary preacher, Samuel Cooper, as Copley painted it, looks upon me with the pleasantest of smiles and a liveliness of expression which makes him seem a contemporary after a hundred years' experience of eternity.

  • In the Midst of Calumny or Contempt, he attends to that Being who whispers better things within his Soul, and whom he looks upon as his Defender, his Glory, and the Lifter up of his Head.

  • It aggravates the Evil to him who suffers, when he looks upon himself as the Mark of Divine Vengeance, and abates the Compassion of those towards him, who regard him in so dreadful a Light.

  • By a definition[C] sufficiently ambiguous and slippery, he undertakes to set forth a form of slavery which he looks upon as consistent with the law of Righteousness.

  • If slavery has so palsied his mind that he looks upon himself as a chattel, and consents to be one, actually to hold him as such, falls in with his delusion, and confirms the impious falsehood.

  • If slavery has so palsied his mind and he looks upon himself as a chattel, and consents to be one, actually to hold him as such, falls in with his delusion, and confirms the impious falsehood.

  • The soul that is thrust down into this prison, looks upon itself as dying and pining away; as hated, despised, and persecuted by every creature of God.

  • When a man is thus wretched and poor in his own eyes, and has nothing in the world in which to trust but the pure grace of God, manifested in Christ Jesus, then God graciously "looks upon him.

  • So that whosoever thus loves himself, must be a slave either to honor or pleasure, which he looks upon as his greatest happiness, as gratifying that inclination to himself, which is uppermost in his heart.

  • He tries to persuade himself that he hears this voice speaking in his soul; he looks upon it as so imperative that he is obliged, so he says, to do what it commands, “whether it be foolish or evil or great or small.

  • This he looks upon as a great evil which ought to be remedied.

  • As for emperors, kings, queens, princes, or presidents, he looks upon them as children in masquerade.

  • He looks upon them as arbitrary interferences with his rights.

  • Another instance of his dislike for Modernism is his criticism of Pascoli, whose attempts to reveal enigmas in the writings of Dante he looks upon as useless.

  • It looks upon art as an inebriation of the senses, and therefore, not only useless, but harmful.

  • As the science of the spirit, it looks upon religion as a phenomenon, a transitory historical fact, a psychic condition that can be surpassed.

  • He who knows himself for a beast of prey, looks upon others in the same light, and we are so apt to judge of others by ourselves, that the man who has no mercy, is as careful as possible never to want it.

  • This he looks upon to be sound learning and substantial criticism.

  • This he looks upon as demanded by his position and, therefore, it is, as he thinks, “well done.

  • He looks upon Luther’s controversial writings on the subject of Antichrist as justified.

  • Himself he looks upon as the champion of God against the devil, raised, as it were, to the pinnacle of the temple.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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