 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 oldal
...faculty : the verb is obsolete, but used by Shakspcarc as signifying to operate upon as physic. A ro*rrv heart doeth good like a medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Prov. xvii. 22. O, rav dear father ! restauration, hang Thy medicine on my lips ; and let this kiss Repair... | |
 | William Wadd - 1829 - 208 oldal
...concomitant causes of Corpulency ; and so they have been considerd from the days of Solomon. — " A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones." Now the optics of some lean people are in so unlucky a perspective, as to throw a shade over every... | |
 | 1829 - 762 oldal
...d'un enfant." — Voyage à Peking, tome il. p. 24. fattening without Food. — Solomon says, that " a merry heart doeth good like a medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the bones" — the origin, no doubt, of our common prorerb — " Laugh and grow fat." There ie nothing, however,... | |
 | 1830 - 398 oldal
...mind helps digestion more than is imagined :" and all are aware of the saying of the wise king, " A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones." The stimulus of the joyous and gently exciting passions, in suspending the incipient symptoms of various... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 oldal
...tarnation," tit ttcd in common parlance in aereral of the states of America. ON PUNNING, CONUNDRUMS, &c. " A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones." — Proverbs, vii. 22. "Oh, the anti-risible rogue!— Oh, the jesticide — the hilarifuge — the... | |
 | 1831 - 930 oldal
...mischief. 21 He that begetteth a fool tloeth it to his sorrow : and the father ofa fool hath no joy. 22 A rak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go : but merry bones. 23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. 24 Wisdom... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 oldal
...not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. LESSON LXVIII. A MERBY heart doeth good like a medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 2 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity ; but a wounded spirit who can bear ? 3 Heaviness... | |
 | Heinrich Zschokke - 1834 - 270 oldal
...passions, which consumes unobserved, our strength and vigor. " A merry heart," exclaims Solomon, " doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones." If you would enjoy a smooth and tranquil existence, you must avoid all violent outbreakings of your... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 oldal
...letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. — Prov. xvii. 14. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones. — xvii. 22. The English proverb says, " Dry sorrow drinks the blood." Sorrow, that cannot weep !... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 322 oldal
...concomitant causes of corpulency, and so they have been considered from the days of Solomon — ' A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.' — Prmerls. Now the optics of some lean people are in so unlucky a perspective, as to throw a shade... | |
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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 
