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I longed to get back into the head of that fervent undergraduate, to read sympathetically through his eyes.
Rather grim and earnest and puritanical not to read with the heart and the mind, I say … When we read sympathetically and attentively – giving over our presumption that we are here somehow to condescend or should tell the author that we know better – these books (quite powerfully) remind us that our contemporary reading experiences carry with them a certain relative poverty".
As Gandhi aptly observed, "It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world.
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The interview with Knox, by Simon Hattenstone, reads sympathetically but is not without challenge to her.
In addition, Richardson has absorbed the by now vast scholarship devoted to Thoreau; just as he has read Thoreau sympathetically so has he used the scholarship fairly.
The critics who have read "The Red Wheel" sympathetically measure it against "War and Peace," often finding that Solzhenitsyn is better at war, Tolstoy at peace.
Penelope Lively's The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, sympathetically read by Rosalind Adams, is a gripping yarn, ideal for those setting off on holiday to country cottages (BBC £10.99).
These basic building blocks of Machiavelli's thought have induced considerable controversy among his readers going back to the sixteenth century, when he was denounced as an apostle of the Devil, but also was read and applied sympathetically by authors (and politicians) enunciating the doctrine of "reason of state" (Meinecke 1957).
He has read carefully and sympathetically everything that Thoreau wrote--published or unpublished.
The more I read -- and began sympathetically rooting for the woman to get over her dead husband, who cheated on her and didn't deserve her anyway -- the more I realized that what I was eating had nothing to do with what I was reading.
"What is it that shocks you, Clare?" I say sympathetically.
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