Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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TO prevent the possible results of a controversy which seemed likely to degenerate into something like personal abuse, we have decided not to publish an answer to the article in the last Advocate, entitled "Maudlin Criticism." That article, even in its title, was so offensive that comments upon it have...
Secondly, unnecessary cruelty must be avoided. Surely, in these days of compassion it needs not to plead for this principle; it will at once be approved by all true artists. I thought at first that the rule should read "all cruelty"; but it is clear that the art of murder...
And so I might go on with the long list of great things which we owe to sentiment, but the lesser ones are dearer to us. I know, my dear Magenta, that I am a person of very small consequence, that my literary contributions are but little valued by you...
With features expressive of grief and compassion.
Carlyle, for instance, draws us up to his philosophic height, and with him we learn to look down upon our fellow-men or upon our own natures. We may close the book and declare that Carlyle is the "Prince of Cynics," but we have felt and thought with him, and...