 | Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 páginas
...greatest depressions of melancholy; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, 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 ; cheerfulness... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 546 páginas
...to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it docs not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a Hash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters fur a moment ; cheerfulness... | |
 | John Wilson (D.D.) - 1816 - 308 páginas
...greatest depressions of melaneholy : on the eontrary, eheerfulness though it does not give the mind sueh an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into...flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of elouds, and glitters for a moment ; eheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, .-- and... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 páginas
...though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents ns from falling into any depth of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitteis for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 páginas
...a gladnefs fo exquifite, prevents it from falling into any depths of forrow. Mirth is like a flafh of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulnefs keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 862 páginas
...pive fuch an exquifite gladnefs, prevents us from falling into depths of lorrow. Mirth is like a fhlh of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; checrfulnefs keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a Heady and perp'.'tual ferenity.... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 páginas
...greatest depressions of melancholy On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Spectator. 9. At the same time that I think discretion the most useful' talent a man can be master... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 páginas
...depressions of melancholy. l ie contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not • vji,. XII. B give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...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, and... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 páginas
...cheerfulness, though it does not t;ive the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from failing into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Spectator. 9. At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 páginas
...greatest depressions ofmelancholljr. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, thai breaks through a gloom of clouds, aud glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of... | |
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Mirth 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... 
