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Political sympathies   /pəlˈɪtəkəl sˈɪmpəθiz/   Listen
Political sympathies

noun
1.
The opinion you hold with respect to political questions.  Synonym: politics.






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"Political sympathies" Quotes from Famous Books



... abuse you determine to remove. You accordingly leave in this House a crowd of judges who, in troubled times, have to try persons charged with political offences; of judges who have often been accused, truly or falsely, of carrying to the judgment seat their political sympathies and antipathies; and you shut out of the house a single judge, whose duties are of such a nature that it has never once, since the time of Edward the First, been even suspected that he or any of his predecessors ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) - Lord Macaulay's Speeches • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... been hocussed with the bewildering hasheesh of Abolition. We had the advantage of reading that truly extraordinary book for the first time in Paris, long after the whirl of excitement produced by its publication had subsided, in the seclusion of distance, and with a judgment unbiased by those political sympathies which it is impossible, perhaps unwise, to avoid at home. We felt then, and we believe now, that the secret of Mrs. Stowe's power lay in that same genius by which the great successes in creative literature have always ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe



Words linked to "Political sympathies" :   opinion, view, sentiment, persuasion, thought



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