Word: contempts
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...father asks his son to explain and hears from him that he had made up this story to avoid being married to Clarice, as he is in love with Lucrece. Dorante goes to Clarice whom he still believes to be Lucrece and assures her that he has nothing but contempt for Clarice. Just then he is warned, by a word in the conversation, of the mistake he has constantly been making of taking Clarice for Lucrece and skilfully explains his actions as a revenge upon the one who he says wished to deceive him and assumed Lucrece's name...
...such gifts will continue if it appears that the Library cannot keep safely the books which it already has. He who removes one book from the Library does an act against the welfare of the Union,--an act not only of gross selfishness, but one that deserves the utmost contempt of every Harvard man. Needless to say the Committee would show no mercy to such a man though it is to be hoped that there will be no further occasion to bring up this unsavory subject. LIBRARY COMMITTEE, William Phillips...
...wish the man who blew up the pump to realize that he has been guilty of an act so small and mean as to arouse the contempt of the body of undergraduates. Signed, J. LAWRENCE, JR., H. B. KIRTLAND, W. T. FOSTER, W. T. REID, Jr., WADDILL CATCHINGS, DAVID C. CAMPBELL, J. W. HALLOWELL...
...race contempt of the Boers for the English is very rife. The unendurable condition of these despised Outlanders caused them to complain to the Queen, as British subjects, on the grounds that they had no share in the municipal government, no chance for naturalization, no rights for their school children, and were oppressed in every way. In the original establishment of the government, the Dutch had promised that the Boers and Outlanders should have equal rights and priviliges. This promise of course has been utterly disregarded...
...been to make me realize that the whole theory of coral formation is still very uncertain. A few interesting discoveries about the Fijis have shown that the very old theory that atolls are coral growths on the rims of sunken extinct craters, for which Darwin and Dana expressed great contempt, was not entirely groundless but in some cases perfectly true...