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Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible - what do they want to do, ghettoize the working class as a subject? Can you only write about your own class? I've written about royalty, am I not allowed to do that?
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Contemptible Little Flying Corps: Being a Definitive and ...
This truly remarkable book, the production of which must have seemed an impossible task, has more than remedied the situation.
Ian McInnes, J.V. Webb,
2001
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The
Contemptible Secret
A once strong, formidable woman has now become weak, frail and fragile. What is on Francesca's horizon for the future? Find out the who, the what, and the how in: "The Contemptible Secret."
Elizabeth LaCroix-Wagaman,
2010
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English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
CONTEMPTIBLE. 287 TO CONTEMPLATE, MEDITATE, MUSE. CONTEMPLATE,
in Latin conlem- pl.atus, participle of contemplor, probably comes from templum a
temple, as a place m»st fitted for contemplation. MEDITATE, in Latin meditatus, ...
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ENLISH SYNONUMS CLASSIDIED AND EXPLAINED; WITH PRACTICAL ...
Contemptible — Despicable, These are synonymes of degree. Despicable is a
more intensive degree of contemptible. What is worthless or weak is contemptible
; what is actively bad or immoral is despicable. In contemning, we pay no more ...
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Contemptible: A Personal Recollection of the 'Retreat from ...
What followed was the memorable retreat from Mons. The author of this book was a subaltern officer serving in one of the county regiments of the B. E. F and chose as his title for this book the proudly worn designation 'Contemptible.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
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Contemptible and Respectable Persons: Vindicating Contempt ...
Contempt can have a unique moral and political value without detracting from the fundamental value of another person.
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Letters of certain Jews to Monsieur Voltaire: containing an ...
I scarcely know a more contemptible people." Philosophical Dictionary, article
Apis. -The Egyptians, a people at all times contemptible." Treatise on Toleration.
Commrnt. This is not the way to persuade us, Sir, to think that the Jews borrowed
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Stand and Fall: A Soldier's Recollections of the ...
This book cannot be recommended too highly--not only is it a riveting account of the Retreat from Mons the ordinary fighting infantryman knew, but it is a first rate narrative of personal experiences at the sharp end of war in the early ...
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Las Vegas lawyer Adam Kutner sues over 'defamatory and offending …
The word in question is slang for an obnoxious or contemptible man. “I think the complaint speaks for itself,” said attorney Bradley Booke, who ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, 七月 15»
CHP's Tanal slams allegations that the AKP is attempting to poach …
“Well if those allegations are correct, then both those who poach them and those who depart are shameful, dishonorable and contemptible,” ... «BGN NEWS, 七月 15»
Arnold Ahlert: Greek Vote: Insanity or Insight? — The Patriot Post
As the Greeks have made amply clear, the center of this contemptible construct isn't holding. The era of security in exchange for de facto, ... «Patriot Post, 七月 15»
worldstarhiphop, wshh – Black America's Hypocrisy over the N-word …
How disgraceful, contemptible and shameful can one possibly be by showing so much DISRESPECT relative to the struggles, sacrifices, trials ... «ThyBlackMan, 七月 15»
Christie Claims Rand Paul Is Making America 'Weaker and More …
The people writing checks to Paul agree with the positions he articulates in those web clips. What is so contemptible about this? «Reason, 七月 15»
Kendo can bring Japan's passive smartphone zombies back to life …
... (国際人, person with an international perspective) instead of the contemptible, outdated, old-style Japanese known as kyūnihonjin (旧日本人). «The Japan Times, 七月 15»
I Complain about America Out of Love — and Fear for the Future
I gripe about the outlook of this president, which I find contemptible and myopic. I gripe, in other words, about America in 2015. And yet I love ... «National Review Online, 七月 15»
Should Christians Submit to Government's Rebellion Against God …
Attempts at marital alchemy notwithstanding, the highly contentious, wholly contemptible 5-4 "gay marriage" opinion (and that's all it is, ... «Charisma News, 七月 15»
Stuck with a Toytown transport system
... main-line versions (Chambers Dictionary: poxy, adj, anything unpleasant, contemptible or troublesome). Those serving Aberdeen-Inverness, ... «Herald Scotland, 七月 15»
Time for civil disobedience, Christians
Attempts at marital alchemy notwithstanding, the highly contentious, wholly contemptible 5-4 "gay marriage" opinion (and that's all it is, ... «RenewAmerica, 七月 15»