 ANGER is one of the sinews of the soul: he that wants it hath a maimed mind, and with Jacob sinew-shrunk in the hollow of his thigh, must needs halt. Nor is it good to converse with such as cannot be angry, and with the Caspian Sea, never ebb nor flow.  The Lithology of Edinburgh - Page xlby John Fleming - 1859 - 102 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1821 - 398 pages
...posthumous miracle of that prophet, recovered his life by lodging with such a grave-fellow." — P. 153. " Anger is one of the sinews of the soul : he that wants it hath a maimed mind." — P. 158. " Generally Nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool, and there is enough... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...posthumous miracle of that prophet, recovered his life by lodging with such a grave-fellow." — P. 153. " Anger is one of the sinews of the soul : he that wants it hath a maimed mind." — P. 158. " Generally Nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool, and there is enough... | |
 | 1821 - 400 pages
...posthumous miracle of that prophet, recovered his life by lodging with such a grave-fellow." — P. 153. " Anger is one of the sinews of the soul : he that wants it hath a maimed mind." — P. 158. " Generally Nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool, and there is enough... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1831 - 340 pages
...flood, which then caused the confusion of languages, and since of the estate of many a man. OF ANGER. ANGER is one of the sinews of the soul: he that wants it hath a maimed mind, and with Jacob sinew-shrunk in the hollow of his thigh, must needs halt. Nor is it good to converse with... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 420 pages
...then caused the confusion of languages, and since of the estate of many a man. XLVIII.— OF ANGER. ANGER is one of the sinews of the soul ; he that wants it hath a maimed mind, and with Jacob, sinew-shrunk in the hollow of his thigh, must needs halt. Nor is it good to converse with... | |
 | 1872 - 722 pages
...and loving heart.* Because he speaks so much of love, he^has .frequently been pictured as one of * " Anger is one of the sinews of the soul ; he that wants it hath a maimed mind, «nd, with Jacob, sinew-shrunk in the hollow of his thigh, must needs halt." — Thomas Puller. those... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...any, which are not in their power to amend. Oh ! 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches. ert Chambers Generally, nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool, and there is enough in his... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 514 pages
...hero, like Macbeth, who " unseemed a man from the nave to the chaps." Anger, we know it has been said, is one of the sinews of the soul : he that wants it hath a maimed mind. But there is danger that this element may so much prevail as to disfigure its possessor rather than... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1854 - 276 pages
...that so, being defecated of this impurer element which 1 "Anger," says Fuller (Holy Stale, iii. 8), "is one of the sinews of the soul ; he that wants it hath a maimed mind, and with Jacob sinew-shrunk in the hollow of his thigh, must needs halt. Nor is it good to converse with... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (Archbishop of Dublin) - 1854 - 258 pages
...wellknown example of this, both lying in the Hebrew 7^0; and this duplicity of meaning it is the part sinews of the soul ; he that wants it hath a maimed mind, and with Jacob sinew-shrunk in the hollow of his thigh, must needs halt. Nor is it good to converse with... | |
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