dispiritment

Obama will be Jimmy Carter squared, including blaming Americans for the great dispiritment, and turning away in thought which will ensue following the rest of the world's cynical use of his dangerously naive ideas to our detriment.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

The condition of peasant children, their sorrows and joys, their sports and bickerings -- the coarse insolence of the richer, the timid dispiritment of the needy, all stood in lively remembrance before his fancy, which liked to go back into that first and only period of his freedom, though, perhaps, also of his beggarhood.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various

Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacus’s Romans, who “called it peace when they had made a desert.

Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Thomas Carlyle 1917

Blessed is the voice that amid dispiritment, stupidity, and contradiction proclaims to us, Euge!

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

Delusion -- a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since ever-continued battle is better than captivity.

Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863

Lessing that what he wrote under the dispiritment of failure should be the most lively and vigorous.

Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

Blessed is the voice that amid dispiritment, stupidity, and contradiction proclaims to us, _Euge!

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838

Poor Paul! hunger and dispiritment track thy sinking footsteps: once or at most twice, in this

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacus's Romans, who 'called it peace when they had made a desert.'

Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790