I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: 3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
So Jesus had compassion on 52 And Jesus said unto him, Go them, and touched their eyes: thy way; thy faith hath made and immediately their eyes thee whole.
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd.
And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
And oft-times it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassionon her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Well, it does not signify complaining, but there are three things for which I am much to be pitied, if any one thought it worth while to waste any compassion upon me.
I suppose, in case Mr. Rashleigh Osbaldistone should not take compassion upon her!
Nor is it encouraging to arm for the defence of the Convention, which is despised, or to oppose the violence of a populace, who, however misguided, are more objects of compassion than of punishment.
Now, I have written you a long letter, to prove how little I need of your compassion or your zeal.
Sir John Gage, the Constable of the Tower, is gently leading her by the left hand to the block, and gazing on her with a surprising compassion and regard--a very noble head.
I think I hear him reading the words, "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
By this they gain people's compassion for themselves, and aside from this they have nothing.
He at once envied and pitied this young existence, derided it and was moved to compassion at the thought that it might again fall into hands like his own.
I know that this is sinful, but God will have compassionon the sinner who has no other happiness on earth than this only one--a love that controls her whole being.
Woe to this woman who has no compassion for another woman!
Light as an elf, transparent as a moonbeam, she there swung to and fro, executing the singular dances and singing songs that brought tears to the eyes and compassion to the hearts of those who heard them.
They shall not say of the man who took compassion upon the deserted and threatened orphan and raised her for his own egotistical wishes, and pusillanimously failed to finish the work he began!
No, no, Carlo, from compassionremain with me only one hour, only this evening!
You are silent, Natalie; have you no word of sympathy, of compassion for me!
He sees human nature, in all its phases, with little compassion for it.
The compassion of the Rosnys for the rich is scarcely justified, since their greatest burden is ennui, and this is an artificial kind of suffering due to defective sympathies, as cold feet are due to sluggish circulation.
We all continued silent for some moments, while my charming pupil, which was the name I generally gave this young lady, united in her looks compassion and astonishment, which gave new finishings to her beauty.
I am resolved to apply to Mr. Hardcastle's compassion and justice for redress.
My compassion for my poor daughter, overpowered by this new disaster, interrupted what I had further to observe.
I looked with compassion upon the wretch as he approached me, but with horror when I found it was my own son!
Although this moved our men to deserved compassion and just indignation, they felt much more keenly the discovery of many fragments of holy images that lay on the ground.
She cried to him piteously, struggling to keep back the tears of anguished compassionand renewed affection: "Oh, don't say such things to me!
She was sorry for her, in a way, but this emotion of indulgent compassion did not render her a whit less implacable.
He said it firmly, but his kind eyes held her, full of the comprehending compassion that does not wound.
He seemed never to be in earnest, yet, at that moment, the queer feeling of compassion that he always excited in her, rose in her heart.
And this compassion could not have been called forth by anything in the circumstances of his life.
To have felt the close contact of a compassion that comprehended was more than she could have endured.
Even though the lion had been indulging in man-eating, he still felt compassion for the great, baffled brute-force.
With the oddest contradiction, at one and the same time she admired his gifts, and felt a great compassionfor him--the man.
He had no other motive for passing the house but that of sympathy and compassion for the forlorn brave creature who was so unlike her surroundings; and no throbbing pulse or trembling nerve forewarned Arthur Vincent of the approach of fate.
He drew back in his seat opposite his mother, and pondered in his heart the wonderful difference between the objects of compassion to whom the world gives ready tears, and those of whom the world knows and suspects nothing.
This library was gradually augmented by donations from the governors, by gifts from various prisoners, and even by the generosity of a citizen of Paris whose compassion had been excited for the lot of the prisoners.
The first to takecompassion on him was a priest, the Abbe Legal, of the parish of St. Roch, and curate of Bicetre.
But the other was an object of compassion ever since.
He rose and went over to the water pail on the bench behind Woolly as if to get a drink, turning with a world of compassion in his eyes as Punk gasped faintly and sank back in Woolly's arms.
In the eyes of the caliph of caliphs the moisture of human compassion sparkled.
Wolfdietrich next came to some mountains, where he encountered a giantess, who told him the story of Ortnit's death, and so roused his compassionfor the unfortunate Liebgart that he vowed to slay the dragon and avenge all her wrongs.
A lover confined to one, should not be too destructive, for fear of the consequences to the remainder of the female world: compassion is ever due to the fair sex.
Yea, doth not charity rather move the minds of just men to take pity and compassion of those few that were offenders [rather than] to be stirred with indignation against them, and for their sakes against others that are innocent?
We have not a high-priest, who cannot have compassion on our infirmities, but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.
And dost thou imagine I am so hard-hearted a villain as to have no compassion of thee?
Now Felice had heard many whisperings how Guy was dying for love of her, since her handmaidens had compassion on the youth, and sought to turn her heart toward him; but Felice was in no mind to have a page for a lover.
Still more unhappy the compassion which prompted him to offer you an asylum and a refuge.
In thee compassion is; in thee is pity; In thee magnificence; in thee unites Whate'er of goodness is in any creature.
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