take part

He declined to take part in the meeting because he did not feel he had anything to add.

So didst thou love man, that thou wouldest take part with him of his misery, that he might take part with thee of thy blessedness.

Yet we take part, on the whole, with the author : — and heartily wish him success in the great object of vindicating his country from unmerited aspersions, and trying to make us, in England, ashamed of the vices and defects which he has taken the trouble to point out in our national character and institutions.