10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPASSIONABLE»
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compassionable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
compassionable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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On English Adjectives in -able: With Special Reference to ...
Compassionable* ' deserving of compassion.' Henry Earl of Monmouth, Isaac
Barrow, 1 Gower has concordable, also. 2 Vantageable, Anon., The Triumphs of
King James tlie First (1610), p. 83. Bacon has disadvantageable, '
disadvantageous ...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. ...
Compassionable,. Commendable,. and. Censurable. And my shame, and my
dishonour : Mine adversaries are. " But as for me, my prayer is unto Thee, 0 Lord,
In an acceptable time : 0 God, in the multitude of Thy mercy hear me, In the truth
of ...
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The Cambridge Platonists: being selections from the writings ...
Now we are in the Hands of him that is primarily and originally good : And he will
certainly commiserate every Case, so far as it is compassionable. Now the Case
of a Sinner is compassionable, if he be penitent; because he was never better ...
Benjamin Whichcote, John Smith, Nathanael Culverwel, 1901
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The works of ... Benjamin Whichcote
It is a compaflionable case for him that is supreme and sovereign, to pity an
unavoidable necessity and misery, and to pardon so far as the case is
compassionable. Now we are in the hands of him that is primarily and originally
good ; and he ...
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The Book of Psalms: Exegetically and Practically Considered
No. LXXVIII. THE COMPASSIONABLE, THE COMMENDABLE, AND THE
CENSURABLE IN LIFE. PSALM LV. 1-23 Pages 436 to 448. History, Annotations,
and Homiletics. I. The Compassionable. 1. He is the victim of malignant
oppression. 2.
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American Notes and Queries
1580 compass-box compass-needle compass-plant compass-saw compass-
timber compass-window compassedly 1556 compassedness 1649 compasser
1603 compassingly 1578 compassionable (compassionate) 1601
compassionable ...
William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, 1890
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Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly Regarding the ...
A man may be compassionate in his nature as an attribute ; he may pity and
compassionate the case as a result of his feelings ; but the case itself can only be
said to be compassionable,-\- or worthy of pity, which has the force of a Latin
gerund ...
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The Dialogues of Creatures Moralysed: A Critical Edition
It is gret wrong not to be compassionable to them that be in trowble. Princes and
lordis in the olde tyme were pitefull and compassionable to wretchis and to
diseasid folke in ther mysery. Wherof Valery tellyth, lib. V, that whan Cesar lokyd
...
Gregory C. Kratzmann, Elizabeth Gee, 1988
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Literary Criticism: Plato to Dryden
... done before us.8 But in truth (as Horace himself says) our spirits are less
quickly moved by things that are heard than by those that are seen.9 Therefore
the action that is narrated is less terrible and less compassionable than when it is
seen.
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Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly Regarding the ...
A man may be compassionate in his nature, as an attribute: he may pity and
compassionate the case as a result of his feelings; but the case itself can only be
said to be compassionable 1', or worthy of pity, _ * To refell, i. e. to refute.
Measure ...
Samuel Pegge, Francis Grose, 1814
