 | George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 430 pages
...confidence, but are to be held as Shakspeare or Luther would have regarded men who hated music. " A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones." But the ceaseless thirst and craving for amusement and merriment, as if it were the whole of life,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 350 pages
...silver and gold. A man's pride shall bring him low; but honor shall uphold the humble 72 in spirit. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 2. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.... | |
 | Health - 1858 - 374 pages
...us that " a cheerful tone of mind helps digestion more than is imagined," and all know the saying of Solomon that " 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... | |
 | William Arnot - 1858 - 500 pages
..." Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop : but a good word maketh it glad."— xii. 25. " A merry heart doeth good like a medicine : but a broken spirit drieth the bones." — xvii. 22. THE emotions that thrill in the heart mark themselves in legible lines on the countenance.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Bible - 1859 - 342 pages
...of man is the candle of the Lord." " The righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked." " A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the bones." " The desire of the slothful killeth him." " Open rebuke is better than secret love." Let those who... | |
 | 1859 - 980 pages
...<fo*rt it A grief to a father, PROVERBS. to hie sorrow : and the father of a fool hath no joy. 22 A them, that she шау . 23 Л wicked тал taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. 24 Wisdom is... | |
 | 1860 - 1346 pages
...mischief. 21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to ЫБ sorrow : and the father of a fool hath no joy. 22 A 23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. 24 Wisdom is before... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1860 - 388 pages
...luxury and indolence, and whom this Scripture characterises, as " the drunkards of Ephraim." CLXXXIX. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Proverbs xvii. 22. There is a dark nature within us, and there is a dark spirit that lodges in, and... | |
 | Joseph Huntington Jones - Experience (Religion) - 1860 - 322 pages
...inferred, not only from the manner in which he commends it, but the frequency. A merry heart, he says, doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Or, as it is better rendered perhaps, in the old translation, "A joyful heart causeth good health;... | |
 | Joseph Huntington Jones - Experience (Religion) - 1860 - 316 pages
...inferred, not only from the manner in which he commends it, but the frequency. A merry heart., he says, doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Or, as it is better rendered perhaps, in the old translation, "A joyful heart causeth good health;... | |
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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 
