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  • Everything which retarded the attainment of that end was contemptible in his eyes.
  • The detection of a plot, in which Norfolk was implicated, for the invasion of England by Spain on behalf of Mary, who was then to take him as the fourth and most contemptible of her husbands, made necessary the reduction of her household and the stricter confinement of her person.
  • Many nobles, whose lands had been wasted during the war, flocked to the little capitals to make their way by contemptible court services.
  • The duke, as a conscientious Protestant, refused to marry his mistress according to the rites of her Church, and she, the chosen champion of its cause, agreed to be married to him, not merely by a Protestant but by one who before his conversion had been a Catholic bishop, and should therefore have been more hateful and contemptible in her eyes than any ordinary heretic, had not religion as well as policy, faith as well as reason, been absorbed or superseded by some more mastering passion or emotion.
  • The various attempts that were made to overturn the new dynasty seem contemptible to the historian of the 20th century.
 
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