Sentence examples for esteeming him from inspiring English sources

Literary historians agree in esteeming him "the greatest of all Restoration fops" (Dobrée), "brutal, evil, and smart" (Hume).

The best explanation, I think, is that Bush's critics esteem him too little to despise.

Conversely, if he is not a serious historian, why do serious people esteem him?

Future generations may esteem him more as a social and moral critic, a pioneer of the society of equality.

His contemporaries esteemed him as a scholarly man of letters and a sincere churchman dedicated to reform of simoniacal practices.

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

But the second, which was presented by Phocion, he received, understanding from the older Macedonians how much Philip had admired and esteemed him.

And this recalls the servant described in the book of Isaiah, "one from whom men hide their faces," who "was despised, and we esteemed him not".

Though Berthier was not a distinguished commander, Napoleon esteemed him highly as chief of staff of the Grande Armée from 1805.

His contemporaries esteemed him not only as an architect and painter and for his knowledge of perspective but also as a poet and an amateur musician.

Some esteem him simply as a great traditional painter; others see him as a termite in the house of Modernism, eating away at its hidden ideological foundations.