Compassion has so many other wonderful attributes associated with it, for example, benevolence, good will, unselfishness and empathy, just to name a few.
In that sense Jonathan Wild is an allegory in which Wild himself is seen as a representative of evil, an example of selfishness and wanton appetite opposed to good nature and benevolence.
However disgusted he may be by the public shaming of How Green Was My Valley, Huw Morgan acknowledges that the deacon responsible for it is a genuinely "good" man, whose benevolence extends to paying the school fees of the children of the poor.
For example, it is sometimes argued that the existence of such morally good things as benevolence and charity depend, logically, on the reality of specific evils such as pain and suffering.
Americans manage to take care of themselves without our good Swedish advice, benevolence and attention.
The bible commentator William Jenks described the book in 1838 as "a work highly celebrated for the justness of its reflections, and the benevolence, good sense, and piety which it breathes".
But of course because we are doing these other things, hopefully with benevolence and good will and good intentions, it is the other purposes for which we also do them that are often, if not more important, at least more at the centre of our attention.
These flashes of benevolence and good humour?
In Chinese culture dragons are not evil, he noted, but symbolize energy, benevolence and good luck.
(Brantley) Last Chance * 'JACKIE HOFFMAN: CHANUKAH AT JOE'S PUB' The return of a beloved ritual for those wanting a reprieve from enforced benevolence and good cheer.
