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In time it degenerated into a synonym for something contemptibly slothful and worthless, so much so that Plato wished to banish it from his “Republic,” saying that the Lydian pipe should not have a place in a decent community.

The following is the most accurate account we could obtain of his writings, which for the sake of distinction we have divided into classes, by which the reader may discern how various and numerous his compositions are--To have written so much upon so great a variety of subjects, and to have written nothing contemptibly, must indicate a genius much superior to the common standard.--His versification is almost every where beautiful; and tho' he has been ridiculed in the Treatise of the Bathos, published in Pope's works, for being too minute in his descriptions of the objects of nature; yet it rather proceeded from a philosophical exactness, than a penury of genius.

How deplorable then would it be, should this elaborate Structure of our happy Constitution, within the short Period of a thousand Years hence, possibly in Half the time, fall a Prey to Effeminacy, Pusilanimity, Venality, and Seduction; like some ancient Oak, the Lord of the Forest, to a Pack of vile Worms that lay gnawing at the Root; or, like Egypt, be contemptibly destroyed by Lice and Locusts.

Why, why, will the dear creature take such pains to appear all ice to me?--Why will she, by her pride, awaken mine?--Hast thou not seen, in the above, how contemptibly she treats me?--What have I not suffered for her, and even from her!--Ought I to bear being told, that she will despise me, if I value myself above that odious Solmes?He was indeed eminently superior to the vices of the rest; but I did not less exquisitely feel how much he was out of his place, how disproportionably associated, or how contemptibly employed.

But he should think most contemptibly of himself as a man if he could talk on this traffic without emotion.

He liked saying "Bathsheba" as a private enjoyment instead of whistling; turned over his taste to black hair, though he had sworn by brown ever since he was a boy, isolated himself till the space he filled in the public eye was contemptibly small.

The disturbance was as the first floating weed to Columbus-the contemptibly little suggesting possibilities of the infinitely great.

But, on the other hand, to give, in this her hour of weakness, that which she had refused in the hours of clear-seeing strength;-to let go, because she was alone and the unloveliness of age claimed her, that sense of bitter injury and injustice which she had hugged to her breast when young and still aware of her empire,-would not such action be contemptibly poor spirited?They appeared to her so absurdly inadequate, so contemptibly divorced from the primary interests of existence.

She fancied it rang a little stronger. "It is contemptibly futile, and therefore conspicuously in keeping with the rest, to have taken all this trouble about dying only, in the end, to sneak back." "Oh! well, sir, after all you're not so very far on the return voyage yet!" Vanstone put in consolingly.

Possibly it is contemptibly narrow-minded.

":""that a man should be convicted of libel when he named no names but Hate, and Envy, and Lust, and Avarice, is like one of the indictments in the 'Pilgrim's Progress', where Faithful is arraigned for having 'railed on our noble Prince Beelzebub, and spoken contemptibly of his honourable friends, the Lord Old Man, the Lord Carnal Delight, and the Lord Luxurious'."""


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