The ships were unwieldy and unhandsome.—Holland, Livy, p. 1188.
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A very deep truth lies involved in the fact that so many words, and I suppose in all languages, unite the meanings of wicked and miserable, as the Greek σχέτλιος, our own ‘wretch’ and ‘wretched.’ So, too, it was once with ‘unhappy,’ although its use in the sense of ‘wicked’ has now passed away.
Fathers shall do well also to keep from them [their children] such schoolfellows as be unhappy, and given to shrewd turns; for such as they are enough to corrupt and mar the best natures in the world.—Holland, Plutarch’s Morals, p. 16.
Thou old unhappy traitor,
Briefly thyself remember; the sword is out
That must destroy thee.
Shakespeare, King Lear, act iv. sc. 6.
The servants of Dionyse, king of Sicily, which although they were inclined to all unhappiness and mischief, yet after the coming of Plato, perceiving that for his doctrine and wisdom the king had him in high estimation, they thus counterfeited the countenance and habit of the philosopher.—Sir T. Elyot, The Governor, b. ii. c. 14.
[Man] from the hour of his birth is most miserable, weak, and sickly; when he sucks, he is guided by others; when he is grown great, practiseth unhappiness and is sturdy; and when old, a child again and repenteth him of his past life.—Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy; Democritus to the Reader.