...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: and many men are as much gauled with a calumny, ca scurril and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satyre, apologe, epigram, stage-playes,...

...that 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...

...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...

...ourselves.—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,...

...illius tristissima noctis imago. ' Qui solo aspectu medicinae movebntur ad purgandum. effect it ; ' like travellers and seamen, (saith Plutarch) that,...than a blow with a sword : 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,...

...and 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...

...that mischance only, but all such dangers whatsoever." SUBSECT. IV. — Scoffs, Calumnies, bïtler , complain, who by chance at Memphis seeing that Thracian...mine old age ; 1 resisted a long time tnr bodily eyes quibus potentia sceleris impunitatcmfcci!, are grievously vexed with these pasquilling libels, and...

...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...

...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...

...Goldsmith. DXLIH. 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...