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Kindness See also Generosity. Allworthy, Squire Tom Jones’s goodhearted foster father. [Br. Lit.: Tom Jones] relieves lion of thorn in paw and is repaid in arena by lion’s failure to attack him. [Rom. Lit.: Noctes Atticae, Leach, 55] “the universal mediator, comforter, and friend.” [Br. Lit.: Old Curiosity Shop] gave starving Valjean food, bed, and comfort. [Fr. Lit.: Les Misérables] took benevolent custody of Ruth. [O.T.: Ruth 2:8–16] rescued Oliver Twist from arrest and adopted him. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Oliver Twist] symbol of compassion. [Plant Symbolism: Jobes, 279] Philip’s loving, sensitive aunt. [Br. Lit.: Of Human Bondage, Magill I, 670–672] kindly shelters runaway, Florence Dombey. [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son] Babylonian king; kind to captive king, Jehoiachin. [O.T.: II Kings 25:27–29] refuses to turn in Jim, the fugitive slave. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] (1182–1226) patron saint and benevolent protector of animals. [Christian Hagiog.: Hall, 132] loving and giving. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 309] the “Good Witch”; Dorothy’s guardian angel. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 780] helps out man victimized by thieves and neglected by other passers-by. [N.T.: Luke 10:30–35] symbol of kindness and benevolence. [Heraldry: Halberts, 30]
helps the poor by plundering the rich. [Br. Lit.: Robin Hood] kind to the poor, forgiving to the sinful. [N.T.: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John] retrieved Christ’s body, enshrouded and buried it. [N.T.: Matthew 27:57–61; John 19:38–42] goddess of mercy. [Buddhism: Binder, 42] spinster painter of miniatures who devoted herself to befriending the Nicklebys. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Nicholas Nickleby] symbol of compassion. [Herb Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 164] doing good to others as raison d’être. [Am. Lit.: The Magnificent Obsession, Magill I, 547–549] venerable sea god of great kindliness. [Gk. Myth.: Century Classical, 744–745] “spent all her time in good deeds.” [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 97] exhibits fellow-feeling for comrades. [Medieval Animal Symbolism: White, 77–78] kindhearted bachelor who shelters niece and nephew. [Br. Lit.: David Copperfield] “city of brotherly love.” [Am. Hist.: Hart, 651] takes starving Jane Eyre into his home. [Br. Lit.: Jane Eyre] helps criminals and the poor to a better life. [Fr. Lit.: Sue The Mysteries of Paris in Magill I, 632] cares lovingly for her blind father, provides for her husband’s mistress and children, and is kind to all who suffer. [Br. Lit.: George Eliot Romola] in midwinter, gave his cloak to a freezing beggar. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewer Dictionary] “the kindest of men.” [Br. Lit.: David Copperfield] indicates sympathy. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178] from pity, offers Christ cloth to wipe face. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 334] French priest renowned for his charitable work. [Christian Hagiog.: NCE, 2896] Bohemian prince noted for piety and generosity. [Eur. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1147] |
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Kindness is all very well, but you can't rule them by kindness only.
I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scientific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my services, which received, through the kindness of the hydrographer, Captain Beaufort, the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty. An episode of humour or kindness touches and amuses him here and there--a pretty child looking at a gingerbread stall; a pretty girl blushing whilst her lover talks to her and chooses her fairing; poor Tom Fool, yonder behind the waggon, mumbling his bone with the honest family which lives by his tumbling; but the general impression is one more melancholy than mirthful. |
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