Their usefulness did not depend on making the patient swallow substances for the most part harmful (the harm was scarcely perceptible, as they were given in small doses), but they were useful, necessary, and indispensable because they
satisfied a mental need of the invalid and of those who loved her- and that is why there are, and always will be, pseudo-healers, wise women, homeopaths, and allopaths.
Laugh away; I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am
satisfied when I am hungry.
There is a sort of ridiculous delicacy about him which requires the fullest explanation of whatever he may have heard to my disadvantage, and is never
satisfied till he thinks he has ascertained the beginning and end of everything.
"Thanks, my brave lover; but as you are
satisfied of my love, you must, in your turn, satisfy me of yours.
The next morning we talked of it again, when I found he was fully
satisfied, and, smiling, said he hoped I would not want money and not tell him of it, and that I had promised him otherwise.
Pontellier was accepted and taken for granted, she was apparently
satisfied that it should be so.
You must be
satisfied with such admiration as I can honestly give.
Bennet would have been very miserable; but being
satisfied on seeing her that her illness was not alarming, she had no wish of her recovering immediately, as her restoration to health would probably remove her from Netherfield.
Not
satisfied with questions, he carefully examined the great organs of life.
Upon this, Wilkins was immediately summoned; who having confirmed what the captain had said, was by Mr Allworthy, by and with the captain's advice, dispatched to Little Baddington, to inform herself of the truth of the fact: for the captain exprest great dislike at all hasty proceedings in criminal matters, and said he would by no means have Mr Allworthy take any resolution either to the prejudice of the child or its father, before he was
satisfied that the latter was guilty; for though he had privately
satisfied himself of this from one of Partridge's neighbours, yet he was too generous to give any such evidence to Mr Allworthy.
But concerning his subjects, when affairs outside are disturbed he has only to fear that they will conspire secretly, from which a prince can easily secure himself by avoiding being hated and despised, and by keeping the people
satisfied with him, which it is most necessary for him to accomplish, as I said above at length.
To all this and much more that Anselmo said to Lothario to persuade him to come to his house as he had been in the habit of doing, Lothario replied with so much prudence, sense, and judgment, that Anselmo was
satisfied of his friend's good intentions, and it was agreed that on two days in the week, and on holidays, Lothario should come to dine with him; but though this arrangement was made between them Lothario resolved to observe it no further than he considered to be in accordance with the honour of his friend, whose good name was more to him than his own.