I dare say the new theories of liberty and equality were not sympathetic to the trained representatives of courts, but the world was advancing, democracy was in the air, and one would have thought it would have interested foreigners to follow the movement and to judge for themselves whether the young Republic had any chance of life.

I quite agreed, said it was the fortunes of war; I hoped the marshal would find another premier who would be more sympathetic with him, and then we talked of other things.

Miss Evans led a quiet, studious, unobtrusive life with the man she loved, sympathetic in her intercourse with congenial friends, and devoted to domestic duties.

The major's eyes were moist, for the old soldier was sympathetic as a child.

But they have been careful to ask all our witnesses whether they were I.W.W. members, whether they belonged to any labor union, and whether they were sympathetic towards workers on trial for their lives.

Women ought, perhaps, always to make the best criticsat once more quicksighted, more tasteful, more sympathetic than ourselves, whose proper business is creation.

He never speaks harshly of the liberators, to be sure; in fact his indirect reference to Brutus in the Aeneid is remarkably sympathetic for an Augustan poet, but we have two epigrams of his attacking partizans of Antony in terms that remind us of passages in Cicero's Philippics.

Even these, however, disclose a man not wholly confined to the ipsa verba of Epicurus, for they show more interest in rhetorical precepts than was displayed by the founder of the school; they are more sympathetic toward the average man's religion, and not a little concerned about the affairs of state.

In the first place his father was a variety of pituitocentric, of the post-pituitary inferior type, six feet two inches tall, exceedingly corpulent, and, in the eyes of his son, the sharpest of observers and the most sympathetic of men.

" "Well, I'm really sympathetic about your spoiled day, but it looks as if all your disappointments sprang from the same cause.

" Again, "There are three attainments of the superior man which are beyond methe being sympathetic without anxiety, wise without scepticism, brave without fear.

It was, rather, a vast, impersonal shrinkinga sympathetic shrinkingfrom the agony and terror that countless others, somewhere, somehow, felt for themselves.

It is curious to trace in the Madonnas of contemporary, but far distant and unconnected schools of painting, the simultaneous dawning of a sympathetic sentimentfor the first time something in the faces of the divine beings responsive to the feeling of the worshippers.

Stevenson was so sympathetic by nature that once, seeing a man beating a dog, he interfered, crying, "It's not your dog, it's God's dog."

" The porter looked at him sympatheticallyeverybody is sympathetic at a hospital, from the head physician and that puissant lady, the matron, down to the boy who cleans the brass plate.