| Robert Burton - 1804 - 622 pàgines
...SUBSECT. IV. Scoffs, Calumnies, litter Jests, how they cause Melancholy. "T is an old saying, ba How with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword:...otherwise happy, and have all at command, secure and free, (¡uilits potentia sceleris impunitatem fecit, are grievously vexed with these pasquelling libelle... | |
| Robert Burton - 1821 - 612 pàgines
...such dangers whatsoever. SUBSECT. IV. Scoffs, Calumnies, bitter Jests, how they cause Melancholy. I_T is an old saying, ba blow -with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sicord : and many men are as much gauled with a calumny, ca scurril and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil,... | |
| Robert Burton - 1824 - 378 pàgines
...disease*. Scoffs, Calumnies and Jests, are frequently the causes of melancholy. It is said that " a blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword;" and certainly there are many men whose feelings are more galled by a calumny, a bitter jest, a libel, a... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...Goldsmith. DXLm. Scoffs, calumnies, and jests, are frequently the causes of melancholy. It is said that "a blow with a word, strikes deeper than a blow with a sword;" and certainly there are many men whose feelings are more galled by a calumny, a bitter jest, a libel, a... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 pàgines
...urselves.—Goldsmith. DXLIII. Scoffs, calumnies, and^ests, are frequently the causes of melancholy. It is said that "a blow with a word, strikes deeper than a blow with a sword;" and certainly sthere are many men whose feelings are more galled by :i calumny, a bitter jest, a libel,... | |
| Robert Burton - 1837 - 644 pàgines
...whatsoever. SUBSECT. IV. Scoffs, Calumnies, bitter Jests, how they cause Melancholy. IT is an old saying, 'a blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a...: and many men are as much gauled with a calumny, 3 a scurril and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satyre, apologe, epigram, stage-playes, or the like,... | |
| 1841 - 414 pàgines
...present overthrow. The sword could no longer be used, but there is an old and a true saying, that a " blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword," on this hint business was commenced, and railings, scurrilities, libels, and lies were the weapons... | |
| Robert Burton - 1850 - 728 pàgines
...SUBSECT. IV. — Scoffs, Calumnies, bïtler Jests, how they cause Melancholy. IT is an old saying, ""A odophe, might not hold his eyes off her : w " I will not conceal it, she overcame me galled with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram,... | |
| Elisha Reynolds Potter - 1852 - 406 pàgines
...take delight in it and do it purposely, they are not sufficiently cautious in guarding against it. " A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword." And when we reflect how much of the happiness of life is made up of little things, how much it depends... | |
| 1856 - 372 pàgines
...Goldsmith. DXLIIL Scoffs, calumnies, and jests are frequently the causes of melancholy. It is said that " a blow with a word, strikes deeper than a blow with a sword ;" and certainly there are many men whose feelings are more galled by a calumny, a bitter jest, a libel, a... | |
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