 | 1869 - 346 pages
...of a friend." " It's true, Ned," he answered. " Dost thou not know what the good old book says, ' A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the bones ?' Dr. Bradley could not give thee a better prescription than that — no, not one a quarter as good."... | |
 | John Wade - 1824 - 258 pages
...can have any good thing, take it : and Plato says, if you do not take it, you are a great coxcomb. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. — Solomon. They that slander the dead are like envious dogs, that bark and bite at bones. — Zeno.... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...mischief. 21 He that begetteth a.foo\doeth it to his sorrow : and the father of a fool hath no joy. 22 A , and into his courts with praise : be thankful unto him, and bless his uae. 5 F 23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. 24 Wisdom is before... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 472 pages
...understanding walketh uprightly.' xvii. 5. ' whoso mocketh the poor, reproacheth his maker.' v. 22. ' a merry heart doeth good like a medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.' See also xviii. 14. xxvi. 19. 1 so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 794 pages
...of understanding walketh uprightly. xvii. 5. whoso mocketh the poor, reproacheth his maker. \. 22. a merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. See also xviii. 14. xxvi. 19. so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 566 pages
...cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken." And again, Prov. xvii. 22, " A merry heart doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones." Again, ' A merry heart is a continual feast.' • " He saved me." Hieronymus has it better, " he delivered... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 1184 pages
...cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.' And again, Prov. xvii. 22, " A merry heart doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Again, ' A merry heart is a continual feast.' " He saved me." Hieronymus has it better, " h* delivered... | |
 | 1828 - 492 pages
...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." — Proverbs. Now the optics of some lean people are in so unlucky a perspective, as to throw a shade... | |
 | Henry Belfrage - 1827 - 710 pages
...* Acts iii. 26. DISCOURSE IX. THE EFFECTS OF CHEERFULNESS AND OF DESPONDENCY. PROVERBS xvii. 22. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth up tlie bond. ONE of the most common artifices of the enemies of religion to bring it into discredit,... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...théâtre 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,... | |
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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 
