 | John William Carleton - 1839 - 524 páginas
...images of his own youthful days. Thus, says Addison. is cheerfulness preferable to mirth. " The one, is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment. The other, keeps up a kind of day-light on the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 páginas
...soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?" — Pope. LESSON XIII. RULE XIII. " Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." — Addison. ' ' The pleasures of sense resemble a foaming torrent : which, after a disorderly course,... | |
 | 1842 - 346 páginas
...lightning, thai breaks through a gloom of clouds, anc glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keep a kiml of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity EDftorfal. THE NEW YEAR. — Once more we make our best hbw to the thousands of our fair readers, and... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 páginas
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind nuch an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fallinir into any 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 da) light... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1843 - 122 páginas
...gladness, prevents us from falling into any depth of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, which breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment: cheerfulness keeps up 8 kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 4. Discretion and... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 páginas
...the former as a hdbit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, ch&erfulness fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through...glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of ddylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 2. The very actions which... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 páginas
...personal worth, against them. Mirth' is short' and transient' : cheerfulness* fixed and permanent*. Mirth is like a flash of lightning' that breaks through...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 páginas
...the former as a hdbit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 2. The very actions which they have only riad I have partly slen, and pdrtly myself achieved. What... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 páginas
...gla'dness) prevents us from falling into any de'pths-of -sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lTghtning, that breaks through a gloom of clou'ds, and glitters...and fills it with a steady and perpetual sere'nity. Men of austere prin'ciples/ look upon m'irth as too wa'nton and diss'olute for a stut.Y of prob'ation,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 páginas
...greatest depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...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... | |
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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... 
