Pain, mental, or emotional unhappiness caused by bad things happening

Patients suffering from cholera in the Jura during the 1854 epidemic, with Dr Gachet attending them. Pencil drawing by A. Gautier, 1859.

A bird's beak cuts a woman's hand; representing the sense of touch and the fact that it persists longer (in pain) than the other senses. Engraving, 16--.

Abraham and Isaac embrace in the wilderness, in the shock of their reprieve. Autotype after F.J. Shields, 1877.

A woman with a crutch, a man in chains and a man falling on a sword; allegory of suffering and the different forms of death. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563?.

Four faces of the damned in Dante's Hell. Drawing, c. 1791.

Head of a man expressing acute pain. Pencil drawing after Charles Le Brun.

Crook in the lot  or the sovereignty and wisdom of God displayed in the afflictions of men. Being the substance of several sermons on Eccles. vii. 13. and Prov. xvi. 19. by the late Reverend and learned Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel.

The face of a great character expressing great affliction, according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1793, after C. Le Brun or D.N. Chodowiecki.

The crook in the lot  Or, the sovereignty and wisdom of God in the afflictions of men, displayed: Together with a Christian deportment under them. Being the substance of several sermons on Eccl. VII. 13. Prov. XVI. 19. and I Pet. V. 6, By the Reverend and learned Mr.Thomas Boston, late minister of the Gospel at Ettrick. To which are added, some sermons on the nature of Church Communion, from I Cor. X. 17.

The pathos of distance : dis-ease and eudaimonia in Nietzsche's writings / by Matthew Klinsky.

La sofferenza nei secoli / di Dietrich von Engelhardt.

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Crook in the lot or the sovereignty and wisdom of God displayed in the afflictions of men. Being the substance of several sermons on Eccles. vii. 13. and Prov. xvi. 19. by the late Reverend and learned Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel.

The face of a great character expressing great affliction, according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1793, after C. Le Brun or D.N. Chodowiecki.

The pathos of distance : dis-ease and eudaimonia in Nietzsche's writings / by Matthew Klinsky.

La sofferenza nei secoli / di Dietrich von Engelhardt.

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Crook in the lot or the sovereignty and wisdom of God displayed in the afflictions of men. Being the substance of several sermons on Eccles. vii. 13. and Prov. xvi. 19. by the late Reverend and learned Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel.

The face of a great character expressing great affliction, according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1793, after C. Le Brun or D.N. Chodowiecki.

The pathos of distance : dis-ease and eudaimonia in Nietzsche's writings / by Matthew Klinsky.

La sofferenza nei secoli / di Dietrich von Engelhardt.

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