Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Elegant extracts - עמוד 28מאת Elegant extracts - 1816תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| John Hall - 1845 - 354 דפים
...permanent*. Mirth is like a flash of lightning' that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment' : cheerfulness* keeps up a kind of daylight...and fills it with a steady' and perpetual serenity. I esteem a habit of benignity' greatly preferable to munificence*. The former is peculiar to great... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 דפים
...depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that leaps through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady, perpetual serenity. 2. If we consider cheerfulness in three lights, with regard to ourselves, to those... | |
| Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 348 דפים
...act, cheerfulness — as a habit of the mind. Mirth — is like a flash of lightning, that glitters for a moment; cheerfulness — keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind. 4. Men will wrangle for religion ; write for it; fight for it; die for it; any thing but — live for... | |
| Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 390 דפים
...act, cheerfulness — as a hahit of the mind. Mirth — is like a flash of lightning, that glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness — keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind. 4. Men will wrangle for religion ; write for it; fight for it; die for it; any thing but — live for... | |
| Salem Town - 1847 - 420 דפים
...permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through the gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 1 esteem a habit of benignity greatly preferable to munificence. The former is peculiar to great and... | |
| C. T - 1847 - 350 דפים
...like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; while cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." If we wish to find a pattern of cheerfulness in the animal world, there can be little difficulty in... | |
| Goold Brown - 1848 - 324 דפים
...thousand ways, is there no black or white ? — Pope. LESSON XVII.— RULE XIII. Cheerfulness f<eeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.— ^-Addison. King Solomon built a temple, and dedicated it to the Almighty. — Allen, The pleasures... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 דפים
...depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 10. Never before were there so many opposing interests, passions, and principles committed to such... | |
| William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 דפים
...of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. greatest dangers. "Writers of this complexion have observed that the sacred Person, who was the great... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 דפים
...permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." He considers cheerfulness in three points of view, as it regards ourselves, or those we converse with,... | |
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