So true it is that among mankind respect is a distinct characteristic of the better element and contempt a characteristic of the worse.

And whatever epithets of reproach or contempt this compassion may incur from those who confound cruelty with firmness, I know not whether any wise man would wish it less powerful, or less extensive.

The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of glory, and bring to contempt all the honorable of the earth."

Then unto him who thus hath thrown Even to contempt thy kingdom down, And by his blood did us advance Unto his own inheritance To him be glory, power, praise, From this unto the last of days!

He shows us the fate of an overwrought, badly instilled wisdom; yet when that wisdom has been deserted by its cause, the promptings of a heart, pure at the core, hold up to contempt the mad teachings of the sophist.

They are like the great capitalists who, occupied with vast projects of speculation, neglect either from carelessness or contempt the small undertakings that lie at their door.