 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1861 - 410 pages
..."remember your Creator in the days of your youth:" — "forsake the foolish, and live." Verse 22. "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones."* — The first clause stands in the original — "A merry heart doeth good — a medicine;" and we may... | |
 | James BROWN (of Selkirk.), James Brown Selkirk - 1862 - 174 pages
...then in being merciful. TITUS ANDRONICUS. Act i. Scene 2. LXXIII. THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF MIRTH. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones. — PROV. xvii. 22. He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. PROV. xv. 15. 1 Neh. ix. 16,... | |
 | James Brown (of Selkirk) - 1862 - 172 pages
...then in being merciful. TITUS ANDRONICUS. Act i. Scene 2. LXXIII. THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF MIRTH. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones. — PROV. xvii. 22. He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. PROV. xv. 15. 1 Neh. ix. 16,... | |
 | Johann Heinrich D. Zschokke - 1863 - 384 pages
...nature, and the restlessness of which causes us so much uneasiness. Therefore, says Holy Scripture: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones." (Prov. xvii., 22.) He who strives after a long and enjoyable duration of life, must seek to maintain... | |
 | 1864 - 520 pages
...But even the idea of the beautiful can be carried too far, as in the instance of African ladies. " A merry heart doeth good, like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones," said Solomon. " Laugh and grow fat," is also an old adage; and Sterne tells us, that every time a man... | |
 | John Gifford Bellett - 1865 - 96 pages
...in Mark iv. And we are taught to know (and our experience sets to its seal that the word is true), "that a merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones." (Prov. xvii. 22.) So that the Master can say, in the one case, "I have meat to eat that ye know not... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1865 - 976 pages
...mischief. He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow : and the father of a fool hath no joy. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones. A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. Wisdom is before him that... | |
 | Charlotte Alington Barnard - 1865 - 168 pages
...in half an hour than the best being in the world with a melancholy mind can do me in half a year. "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones." LOWLAND MARY. THE sun was setting o'er the hill, And gilding all the fern, When lowland Mary from the... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1865 - 538 pages
...the heart the spirit is broken. 15 He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. — 17: 22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Jn. 16: 33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall... | |
 | 1866 - 430 pages
...One of Israel, thy Saviour. — ISAIAH. XLIII. 2, 3. Walk as children of light. — EPHESIANS v. 8. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones. — PEOVEEBS xvii. 22. Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually. — 1 CHRONICLES... | |
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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 
