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But again and again, last summer, I saw this wretched disease, this cacoethes pectus vinciendi, breaking out with renewed and increasing virulence; and I heard women yes, grown-up women, old women talking about the "Grecian bend," and the tapering line of the slender, willowy waist.
Let the joke be ever so bad, ever so untrue to the real principles of joking; nevertheless we must laugh or else beware the cart. We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit of the times, and write up to it too, if that cacoethes be upon us, or else we are nought.
Luther discoursing, in the presence of the Prince Elector of Saxony and other Princes, of the many sorts and differences of wicked persons, said: Colax, Sycophanta, Cacoethes; these sins and blasphemies are almost alike the one to the other, only that they go one after another, as a man going up the stairs and steps ascends from one to another.
If the reader will turn back to the end of the fourth number of these papers, he will find certain lines entitled, "Cacoethes Scribendi." They were said to have been taken from the usual receptacle of the verses which are contributed by The Teacups, and, though the fact was not mentioned, were of my own composition.
Neither let me, poor innocent, be accused of giving license to what a palled public and dyspeptical reviewers will call for the thousandth time a cacoethes; word of cabalistic look, unknown to Dr. Dilworth.
Is it for your own sake for the sake of your family for whose sake? Do you think your songs worth listening to? Answer!" The creature scratched itself, and sang the louder. "Ah! Cacoethes! I pity, but do not blame you," said the traveller. He left the creature, and presently came to another which sang a squeaky treble song.
There are many respectable men here who, though a little touched, as is only natural after all, by a little cacoethes of self-interest, yet, never suffer it to interfere with the steadiness and propriety of their conduct, or the love of peace and good will. It is these men, who, in truth, sustain the character of the Orange-Institution.
which of olden time my cacoethes produced as regularly as recurred the summer solstice. Unlike that of Livy's, I am satisfied that this poor Decade be irrevocably lost; but, for dear recollection's sake of days gone by, intend it at least to be spared from malicious incremation. Records of roamings in romantic youth, witnesses of wayward way-side wanderings, gayly with alliterative titles might your contents,
But in his old age he had fallen a prey to the cacoethes scribendi; he insisted upon having his say about everything, yet his stock of ideas had long since run out. So he became the bogey of the Weimar-Jena people. The Xenia assailed him with frank brutality, thus: What is beyond your reach is bad, you think in your blindness, Yet whatever you touch, that you cover with dirt.
It is a mode of paralysis a cacoethes tacendi the one form that malady takes in me. Well, all passed over very successfully. Palermo, where we stayed eight days, was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world it dreams away its life in the concha d'oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas.
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