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  • Moreover, as Morris realized, the post would cost more than just the time he would lose: A vigorous execution of the duties must inevitably expose me to the resentment of disappointed and designing Men and to the Calumny and Detraction of the Envious and Malicious.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Moreover, as Morris realized, the post would cost more than just the time he would lose: A vigorous execution of the duties must inevitably expose me to the resentment of disappointed and designing Men and to the Calumny and Detraction of the Envious and Malicious.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Tea at Trianon: Slander, Calumny, and Detraction skip to main

    Slander, Calumny, and Detraction elena maria vidal 2009

  • Detraction, which always pursues merit with strides proportioned to its advancement, has indeed alleged that Dick once upon a time painted a horse with five legs, instead of four.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • Detraction is the sworn friend to ignorance: for mine own part,

    The White Devil 2007

  • Detraction is the sworn friend to ignorance: for mine own part,

    The White Devil 2007

  • Detraction : the unjust damaging of another's good name by the revelation of some fault or crime of which that other is really guilty or at any rate is seriously believed to be guilty by the defamer-- The Catholic Encyclopedia

    I can't figure out the point Dymphna 2006

  • Detraction : the unjust damaging of another's good name by the revelation of some fault or crime of which that other is really guilty or at any rate is seriously believed to be guilty by the defamer-- The Catholic Encyclopedia

    Archive 2006-05-01 Dymphna 2006

  • Detraction or jealousy cast no stain upon it; he turned aside, in the midst of an exalted panegyric to Oliver Cromwell, to say the finest things that ever were said of Charles I.

    The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

  • -- _On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises_.

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

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