...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...

...faculty : the verb is obsolete, but used by Shakspcarc as signifying to operate upon as physic.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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 !...

...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...

...have recourse to remedies intended to calm the blood, and to cleanse the body from its impurities. " A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth up the bones." Prov. xvii. 22. And besides, where there is more holiness there will be less need of...