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by the common farmer ; how contemptuously soever the very contemptible authors of some of
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Treasure-trove was, in these times, considered as no contemptible part of the revenue of the greatest sovereigns in Europe
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“This man is contemptible, but he isn’t guilty of
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The inhabitants of cities and burghs, considered as single individuals, had no power to defend themselves; but by entering into a league of mutual defence with their neighbours, they were capable of making no contemptible resistance
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The modern maxims of foreign commerce, by aiming at the impoverishment of all our neighbours, so far as they are capable of producing their intended effect, tend to render that very commerce insignificant and contemptible
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The protection of the magistrate renders the slave less contemptible in the eyes of his master, who is thereby induced to consider him with more regard, and to treat him with more gentleness
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Nothing can be more contemptible than an Indian war in North America; nothing, on the contrary, can be more dreadful than a Tartar invasion has frequently been in Asia
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The person subject to such jurisdiction is necessarily degraded by it, and, instead of being one of the most respectable, is rendered one of the meanest and most contemptible persons in the society
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A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man, is, if possible, more contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deformed in a still more essential part of the character of human nature
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The magistrates of Berne and Zurich, who had no particular quarrel with the pope, established with great ease the reformation in their respective cantons, where just before some of the clergy had, by an imposture somewhat grosser than ordinary, rendered the whole order both odious and contemptible
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Such practices, prompted by sheer greed rather than (simply) profit, are contemptible and should be properly regulated
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Rather, you think Me evil and My speech contemptible!
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Addendum to the above: The most contemptible of all are our putative (political) leaders
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To have run for office as the front man for a bigoted terrorist organization, while they were at the height of committing mob violence and terrorism, is deeply contemptible
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If true (and Hersch’s report was rejected by two media outlets), that is as contemptible as GW Bush’s lies on Iraq
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“Yes, yes, show Captain Flores in, Connie,” Gordon barked at the contemptible box
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You offer polluted bread on my altar; and you say, how have we polluted you? In that you say, the table of the Lord is contemptible
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fruit of it, even his meat, is contemptible
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9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base
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There is nothing contemptible about
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For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible
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He felt like the most contemptible of men
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They said In Bethlehem of Judaea: so it is written in the prophet 6 You also Bethlehem of Judah Are not contemptible among the kings of Judah: From you shall go out a king And he shall be a shepherd to my people Israel
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Brent gave him a contemptible glare and stood up to give him eye-to-eye contact
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Nevertheless in his dealing he was proud and contemptible, as usual in the persons of quite well-off position
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treated her so contemptible? Why had he abused her so badly, his
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contemptible than anything he could imagine
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Four eyes were so many eyes to look at me; and to the overuse of eyes joined also the scarcity of his words, this inconsistency in eyes and words made me feel as a scrapped, contemptible and unworthy human being
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She felt the juvenile part of his life was as pitiable as it was contemptible
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Contemptible! Foul! Despicable! But even these descriptions aren't satisfactory
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The contemptible angel came, that avenging angel of
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them all the more contemptible
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A contemptible character breeding more contempt thought Jazz who wasn’t distracted, but certainly interested in the series of framed photographs and diplomas that graced the wall behind him
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Though she loves me, doesn’t she think by giving herself, she’s doing me a favor? Why, she couldn’t get rid of her Electra complex even after six years of sex life with me that made her mother twice over! Before her giant of a father, isn’t every man a contemptible midget for her? Short of being explicit, doesn’t she tend to imply that I owe my status and all that goes with it to her redoubtable father?’
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The image has been set up to show a contemptible living matching with a vicious look
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but as a contemptible mortal
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To Byron’s disbelief the contemptible man that constrained her looked to be no man at all
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One is vile, contemptible, though he has served me well; the other, kind and good
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I don't mean that you in this are a sinner; I only mean that as a general principle half-hearted sinners are contemptible
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What a brain, thought Miss Entwhistle, disgusted, sitting up very straight in the wickerwork chair, her hands folded in her lap, her eyes shut; what a contemptible, anæmic brain, deserting her like this, only able to throw up to the surface when stirred, out of all the store of splendid stuff put so assiduously into it during years and years of life, couplets
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LanCoste stared blankly ahead as though hardly noticing the expression upon the face of the wicked man with his contemptible grin
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The man without courage unconsciously draws to himself all that is contemptible, weakening,
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It seemed to me a contemptible way of putting pressure on me given my desperate situation
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Kaddafi that contemptible poseur shall join Mubarak and Ben Ali
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It was an introduction to a contempt that is contemptible
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Men find the getting of truth contemptible; I find that contemptible
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And there is nothing contemptible about that
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I found the man contemptible, but I stuck to the plan
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There is one expression in the letter, one slander about me, and rather a contemptible one
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"wretched contemptible lodgers" that she knew "how to do things, how to entertain" and that she had been brought up "in a genteel, she might almost say aristocratic colonel's family" and had not been meant for sweeping floors and washing the children's rags at night
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Probably "taking his cue" from Luzhin, "that contemptible wretch Lebeziatnikov had not turned up either
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" Katerina Ivanovna rose from her chair, and with a stern and apparently calm voice (though she was pale and her chest was heaving) observed that "if she dared for one moment to set her contemptible wretch of a father on a level with her papa, she, Katerina Ivanovna, would tear her cap off her head and trample it under foot
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"Ah, that's your line now, is it!" cried Lebeziatnikov, "that's nonsense! Call the police and I'll take my oath! There's only one thing I can't understand: what made him risk such a contemptible action
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He at once wrote a note to my mother and informed her that I had given away all my money, not to Katerina Ivanovna but to Sofya Semyonovna, and referred in a most contemptible way to the
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are contemptible on that point
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I couldn't carry out even the first step, because I am contemptible, that's what's the matter! And yet I won't look at it as you do
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Benson three times won a guinea, and Miss Rosseter once ten and sixpence? Of course Everard Benson had a weak heart, but still, to win prizes, remember parrots, toady Miss Perry, despise Miss Rosseter, give tea-parties in his rooms (which were in the style of Whistler, with pretty books on tables), all this, so Jacob felt without knowing him, made him a contemptible ass
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I do not mean that they ought to leave them to make a choice of what is contemptible and bad, but that they should place before them what is good and then allow them to make a good choice as they please
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adventures after her contemptible surrender (which probably were not over and above creditable), dropped her where he says:
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Of all these qualities, great and small, is a true knight-errant made up; judge then, Senor Don Lorenzo, whether it be a contemptible science which the knight who studies and professes it has to learn, and whether it may not compare with the very loftiest that are taught in the schools
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There was something rather "doggy", rather smart, rather 'cute and shrewd, and something warm, and something slightly contemptible about him
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The event has proved, that I was a cunning fool, providing with great circumspection for a possible opportunity of making myself contemptible and wretched for ever
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'minor poets' must have been contemptible and intolerable
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At this moment hope makes me despise their riches, which seem to me contemptible
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Yet perchance to-morrow deception will so act on me, that I shall, on compulsion, consider such a contemptible possession as the utmost happiness
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Uncas had cast his body back against the wall of the hut and closed his eyes, as if willing to exclude so contemptible and disagreeable an object from his sight
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It had been seen, already, that his skill was far from being contemptible, and he now resolved to put forth its nicest qualities
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How contemptible and insignificant the very worst that could happen here would be if one knew that this life was only a short journey that was to terminate at the beginning of an eternity of joy? But no one really believed this; and as for those who pretended to do so - their lives showed that they did not believe it at all
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For, I cannot adequately express what pain it gave me to think that Estella should show any favor to a contemptible, clumsy, sulky booby, so very far below the average
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`It is childish to imagine that any measure of Tariff Reform or Political Reform such as a paltry tax on foreign-made goods or abolishing the House of Lords, or disestablishing the Church - or miserable Old Age Pensions, or a contemptible tax on land, can deal with such a state of affairs as this
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He stared for a moment with a look of utter incredulity at the contemptible little woman who had ended his life
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The shame that attends religion lies also as a block in their way; they are proud and haughty; and religion in their eye is low and contemptible, therefore, when they have lost their sense of hell and wrath to come, they return again to their former course
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He realized with a new sort of pain that he had never uttered them before, and once he had recovered from the first shock it occurred to him that there was something contemptible in that
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‘I cannot be made unhappy by the fact that a contemptible woman has committed a crime
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It was all more vile, more base, more contemptible, and infinitely more manageable in the very outspoken cynicism of motives
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It seemed to him too contemptible for hot anger even
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How contemptible he had been! And she had stood there in the road and let him kiss Rhett! She spat on the ground, for the very name tasted bad
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"I won't have you speak like it, dear Tess! Distinction does not consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report—as you are, my Tess
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" It is very probable, too, that Katerina Ivanovna longed on this occasion, at the moment when she seemed to be abandoned by everyone, to show those "wretched contemptible lodgers" that she knew "how to do things, how to entertain" and that she had been brought up "in a genteel, she might almost say aristocratic colonel's family" and had not been meant for sweeping floors and washing the children's rags at night
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men are contemptible on that point
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I couldn't carry out even the first step, because I am contemptible, that's what's the matter! And yet I won't
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"Everything, everything, and am I prepared for it? Do I want it myself? They say it is necessary for me to suffer! What's the object of these senseless sufferings? shall I know any better what they are for, when I am crushed by hardships and idiocy, and weak as an old man after twenty years' penal servitude? And what shall I have to live for then? Why am I consenting to that life now? Oh, I knew I was contemptible when I stood looking at the Neva at daybreak to‐day!"
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"By being contemptible we set men's minds, to the tune of contempt
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His being a clergyman would be only for gentility's sake, and I think there is nothing more contemptible than such imbecile gentility
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Lydgate had so many times boasted both to himself and others that he was totally independent of Bulstrode, to whose plans he had lent himself solely because they enabled him to carry out his own ideas of professional work and public benefit—he had so constantly in their personal intercourse had his pride sustained by the sense that he was making a good social use of this predominating banker, whose opinions he thought contemptible and whose motives often seemed to him an absurd mixture of contradictory impressions—that he had been creating for himself strong ideal obstacles to the proffering of any considerable request to him on his own account
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But against his taking this step, which he still felt to be a contemptible relinquishment of present work, a guilty turning aside from what was a real and might be a widening channel for worthy activity, to start again without any justified destination, there was this obstacle, that the purchaser, if procurable at all, might not be quickly forthcoming
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Why had he not stayed among the crowd of whom she asked nothing—but only prayed that they might be less contemptible?
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Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte’s stern letter, and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him
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To Bolkonski so many people appeared contemptible and insignificant creatures, and he so longed to find in someone the living ideal of that perfection toward which he strove, that he readily believed that in Speranski he had found this ideal of a perfectly rational and virtuous man
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He regarded all these occupations as hindrances to life, and considered that they were all contemptible because their aim was the welfare of himself and his family
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Alexander I- the pacifier of Europe, the man who from his early years had striven only for his people’s welfare, the originator of the liberal innovations in his fatherland- now that he seemed to possess the utmost power and therefore to have the possibility of bringing about the welfare of his peoples- at the time when Napoleon in exile was drawing up childish and mendacious plans of how he would have made mankind happy had he retained power- Alexander I, having fulfilled his mission and feeling the hand of God upon him, suddenly recognizes the insignificance of that supposed power, turns away from it, and gives it into the hands of contemptible men whom he despises, saying only: