brainsick

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Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men, When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise!

From King Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William

Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair, Thou mad misleader of thy brainsick son!

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William

Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much, if the man be not brainsick.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much if the man be not brainsick.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

Calculating men who have thought only of the interest of the priesthood, have known well how best to stimulate and to display the spasmodic movements of a brainsick disinterestedness. 

From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles