 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 דפים
...transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. — Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks througha gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." He considers cheerfulness in three points of view, as it regards ourselves, or those we... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 דפים
...just and beautiful. " Mirth," says he, "is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. — Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters fora moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and... | |
 | William Enfield - 1805 - 456 דפים
...fuch :m exquilite gladnefs, prevents U5 from falling into any depths of forrow. Mirth is like a fiafh of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulnefs keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity.... | |
 | James Beattie - 1807 - 444 דפים
...a cheerful friend is always welcome, and one of the greatest comforts of life. Mirth, says Addison, is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a...glitters for a moment : cheerfulness keeps up a kind of sunshine in the soul, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. A cheerful man is master of... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 דפים
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too wanton and dissolute for a state of probation,... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 דפים
...cheerfulness, though &. does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment j cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1810 - 498 דפים
...into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a Hash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of c'hjnds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight iu the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual se» renity." MISANTHROPIST, &••«>»>•T«5,... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 דפים
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of ;•;..•• (sorrow. Mirth is...of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness . jlie^ps' up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady •' ' ami perpetual serenity.... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 דפים
...prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like vflash of lightning that breaks thro' a gloom of clouds, and glitters »' for a moment ;...day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady ami perpetu.il serenity. 2. .Men of austere principles look u.;on mirth as too wanton and dissolute... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 דפים
...cheeifulness, though it does not give the mind such an extensive gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that bteaks through a gloom of cloucs, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light... | |
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... is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such... 
