This sickness of the spirit is the greatest cause of disorder, since malcontent is always the worst kind of leaven.

THE MALCONTENT XXVI THE BINNACLE XXVII ÇA VA BIEN!

Webster (Duchess of Malfi, ii. 1) has the expression the 'fins of her eye-lids'; it is found also in the Malcontent (i. 1), The confusion between the 'f' and the long 's' is very common.

Although I would not have you to be a courtier; neither would I have you to be a malcontent.

Now, for Sophos, let him wear the willow garland, and play the melancholy malcontent, and pluck his hat down in his sullen eyes, and think on Lelia in these desert groves: 'tis enough for him to have her in his thoughts, although he ne'er embrace her in his arms.

[person who is discontented] malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti

Adj. discontented; dissatisfied &c v.; unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient &c 489; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical.

Vices Character of the Hypocrite Of the Busybody Of the Superstitious Of the Profane Of the Malcontent Of the Inconstant Of the Flatterer Of the Slothful Of the Covetous Of the Vainglorious Of the Presumptuous Of the Distrustful Of the Ambitious Of the Unthrift Of the Envious JOHN STEPHENS JOHN EARLE MICROCOSMOGRAPHY

OF THE MALCONTENT.

The inconstant and he agree well in their felicity, which both place in change; but herein they differthe inconstant man affects that which will be, the malcontent commonly that which was.

[Illustration: Malcontent]

It is sufficient to name a few of the most popular ones in France, which were, Flux, Prime, Sequence, Triomphe, Piquet, Trente-et-un, Passe-dix, Condemnade, Lansquenet, Marriage, Gay, or J'ai, Malcontent, Hère, &c. (Figs. 179 and 180).

Sir, I will stake anything, short of my salvation, that those who are malcontent now, will be more malcontent, three years hence, than they are at this day.

Sir, I will stake anything, short of my salvation, that those who are malcontent now, will be more malcontent, three years hence, than they are at this day.

This undisguised admission at once revealed the selfishness of the views with which the malcontent Princes had lent themselves to the wishes of Marie and her ministers; and assuredly no worse policy could have been adopted than that by which they were again induced to exile themselves from their proper sphere of action.

Six thousand men were in arms on either side; but the troops of the Republic, though ragged, ill-fed, and badly armed, were flushed with the consciousness of success and the presentiment of triumph, while those of Spain were dispirited, worn out, and malcontent.

"Why do you bring young boys here, old man?" cries a malcontent.

The descendants of imperial slaves, free-born Moslems, but barred from the glory and profits of their fathers' function, had gradually become a very numerous class of country gentlemen distributed over all parts of the empire, and a very malcontent one.

Unable or unwilling to encourage national resistance, he consoled himself, as a weak malcontent will, by setting one power against another, pin-pricking the stronger and blustering to the weaker.

Being a malcontent, he had ceased to attend the Court, where his original reception had been most gracious, which he had returned by some factious votes, and a caustic lampoon.

" The die was cast, and retreat cut off for the timid and the malcontent; through a course of alternate successes and reverses Washington had kept up hostilities during the rough campaign of 1776.

The comparatively princely and generous style in which we live in this country, the frank and familiar tone of our little society, and the general mildness of the climate, (excepting a few months of a too sultry summer) can hardly be denied by the most determined malcontent.

Having resolved to make war upon the refractory natives, he set out from Isabella on the 24th of March 1495, taking Guacanagari along with him; yet the enterprize seemed difficult, as the malcontent Indians had collected a force of above 100,000 men, whereas the admiral had only about 200 infantry, 20 horsemen, and about the same number of dogs .

This reply somewhat calmed the remonstrants, but by no means extinguished the spirit of the malcontent party.

" "Oh, I bet you have!" screamed a voice, as, overturning all opposition, the malcontent at the back door, in the shape of an infuriated woman, forced her way into the shop.