To gain their confidence and love, sympathize with their innocent feelings, talk to them privately, preserve a mild dignity without Contemning their ignorance and degradation.
"Thoughts on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes of this Country"
William Swan Plumer
The absurd pride of ancestry occasions many of our young gentlemen to treat those whom they deem their inferiors by birth with haughtiness, and often with something worse; forgetting that by this means they immediately cut themselves off as it were from society: for, by Contemning those who are a supposed step below them, they encourage and incur contempt from the next immediately above them.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
But she called in Clifton, to be her auxiliary; and he fell into the same pettish, half-haughty, half-Contemning kind of manner, in which he had so improperly indulged, previous to the accident of the lake, in France.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft