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The dismal science is a derogatory term for the discipline of economics. [1] Thomas Carlyle used the phrase in his 1849 essay " Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question " in contrast with the then-familiar phrase "gay science" used to refer to the art of troubadours .
Money disorders refer to problematic financial beliefs and behaviors that can cause significant distress and hinder one's social or occupational well-being. These issues often stem from financial stress or an inability to effectively utilize one's financial resources, leading to clinically significant challenges.
His heart condition rapidly worsened and surgery was recommended. Johnson flew to Houston to consult with heart specialist Michael DeBakey , where he learned his condition was terminal. DeBakey found that despite two of Johnson's coronary arteries being in urgent need of a coronary bypass , his heart was in such poor condition that he likely ...
Ranald Mitchell, director of Charwin Mortgages, says: “Financial health isn’t about wealth, it’s about balance, resilience, and creating the security needed to thrive in the present while ...
Malaise is a non-specific symptom and can be present in the slightest ailment, such as an emotion (causing fainting, a vasovagal response) or hunger (light hypoglycemia [2]), to the most serious conditions (cancer, stroke, heart attack, internal bleeding, etc.).
The speaker suggests that the conditions on most slave ships are not nearly as awful as have been widely reported, and that many other countries are still involved in the slave trade, and that trying to stop the trade would be impossible. Additionally, he proposes that rather than simply setting the enslaved free, into a world of which they ...
At the end of the year, Carlyle reported to Karl August Varnhagen von Ense that his earlier efforts to popularise German literature were beginning to produce results, and expressed his satisfaction: "Deutschland will reclaim her great Colony; we shall become more Deutsch, that is to say more English, at same time."
Illth, coined by John Ruskin in the 1860s, is the reverse of wealth in the sense of ill being the opposite of well. [1] [2]John Ruskin, who coined the term Illth in Unto This Last.