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weal 1 Noun a raised mark on the skin produced by a blow [from Old English walu ridge] weal 2 Noun Old-fashioned prosperity or wellbeing: the public weal [Old English wela]
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I TAKE goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal of men, which is that the Grecians call philanthropia; and the word humanity (as it is used) is a little too light to express it. So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God. Shall I, or shall I not (come weal, come woe) take myself off? |
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