It is delightful to those, who detest the debasing tenets of a selfish philosophy, to see the happy influence of opposite ideas; to observe (what Physicians have frequent opportunities of observing), that as a selfish turn of mind often attracts and encreases the malignity of sickness, so an unselfish, a compassionate spirit has a natural tendency to escape or subdue it.

He has always discontent in his look, and malignity in his bosom.

If Pope were serious, it must have galled him indeed, though nothing can excuse the malignity with which he pursued her for years and years.

Of this advantage he cannot be deprived, but by the cowardice or the treachery of those men who are delegated by the people, as the guardians of their liberties; and surely it requires no uncommon penetration to discover, that no act of treason can be equal in malignity to that perfidy which deprives the king of the affections of his subjects, by concealing from him their sentiments and petitions.

The hostile parties in Kansas had been inflamed against each other by emissaries both from the North and the South to a degree of malignity without parallel in our history.

However, the noise would have been drowned in the general tumult, if it had not been for a persistent voice which led the chorus of malignity against Clerambault.

It is out of great misery that malignity for the most part proceeds.

Burke has unguardedly said, 'that vice loses half its malignity by losing its grossness'; but public virtue ceases to be useful when it sickens at the calamities of necessary war.

He believes himself watched by observation and malignity on every side, and rejoices in the dexterity by which he has escaped snares that never were laid.

When Hanno had concluded, there was no occasion for any one to contend with him in debate, to such a decree were almost all the senators devoted to Hannibal; and they accused Hanno of having spoken with more malignity than Flaccus Valerius, the Roman ambassador.

"Curse you!" exclaimed Foley, darting a look of hatred and malignity at him.

And all these worlds, the new even more than the old, were full of malignity toward the wreck, and bent on its destruction.

The critics, who assailed his literary reputation, had hitherto spared his private character; and, excepting Rochester, whose malignity towards Dryden now began to display itself, he probably had not lost one person whom he had thought worthy to be called a friend.

" The smile that had accompanied the whisperthough not so much suggestive of a woman's malignity as of a child's exultation in a companion's disgracegave point and sting to the taunt.

Mind you, I was still in a disgusting funk; but what I might call the 'imminent sense of danger' seemed to have eased from around me; at any rate, I felt, in some curious fashion, that there was a respitea temporary cessation of malignity from about me.