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I know of no Virtue in the Gospel that is in more pathetical Expressions recommended to our Practice.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

This is admirably pathetical, and shows very well the vicissitudes of sublunary things.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

We both of us grew rather pathetical on leaving our Sienese villa, and shrank from parting with the pig.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

She spake in that pathetical and heavenly manner, that Mrs. Bargrave wept several times, she was so deeply affected with it.

From A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal The Next Day after Her Death, to one Mrs. Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September, 1705; which Apparition Recommends the Perusal of Drelincourt's Book of Consolations against the Fears of Death by Defoe, Daniel

Elizabeth has been called a fool for listening to such pathetical 'love letters': and then hardhearted for not listening to them.

From Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Kingsley, Charles