http://www.englishforums.com/English/BasicEnglishVocabularyQuestions/Forum44.htmFor Basic English ONLY. Please post only <b><font color=red>easy</font></b> questions and answers here.enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Meanings/dmqxd/post.htm#314780Mon, 25 May 2009 15:49:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:314780Feebs110http://www.englishforums.com/English/Meanings/dmqxd/post.htm#314780http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments44-314780.xmlPeople who shout rude things at a person being hanged are people of low worth and poor behaviour.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Meanings/dmqxd/post.htm#314687Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:49:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:314687User_gary1http://www.englishforums.com/English/Meanings/dmqxd/post.htm#314687http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments44-314687.xmlThank you very much. I understood everything except the following line : The last part means that a person who would cricitise a criminal who was about to be executed lacks empathy, and others would not think well of them. Could you explain this sentence?http://www.englishforums.com/English/Meanings/dmqxd/post.htm#314483Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:49:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:314483Lil' Ruby Rose2http://www.englishforums.com/English/Meanings/dmqxd/post.htm#314483http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments44-314483.xmlThe writer is talking about situations where misery might have a positive outcome. If someone is miserable as a result of doing a good deed, you should consider the misery a holy state, and not interfere. If someone is miserable as the result of bad luck, you should pity them. If someone is miserable as the result of doing a bad deed, you should consider the misery as part of the punishment for that bad deed. The last part means that a person who would cricitise a criminal who was about to be executed lacks empathy, and others would not think well of them. Overall, the passage sounds like someone giving some (not very convincing) reasons not to help out another person in misery.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Meanings/dmqxd/post.htmWed, 25 Feb 2009 16:49:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:314384User_gary3http://www.englishforums.com/English/Meanings/dmqxd/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments44-314384.xmlIf misery be the effect of virtue , it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune , to be pitied; and if of vice , not to be insulted; because it is perhaps, itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced; and the humanity of that man can deserve no panegyric who is capale of reproaching a criminal in the hands of the executioner . Could anyone explain the meaning of above paragraph?