 | Moral essays - 1824 - 186 páginas
...though it does not.givie the mind much exquisite gladness, prevents it from falling into any deptb of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that...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,... | |
 | John Fawcett - 1824 - 218 páginas
...gladness, prevents us from falling intd the depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, which breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for...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,... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 páginas
...a gladness so exquisite, prevents it from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flush of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds,...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Men of austere principles look upon mirth, as too wanton dissolute for a state of probation,... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 páginas
...the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents »s from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth in like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom...clouds and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps a kind of <;.i , 1 _• 1 .1. in the wind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Spectator.... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 páginas
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, yet it 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. — Spectator. Happiest of all men to me seems the private man, nor can the opinion of ill-judging... | |
 | 1827 - 674 páginas
...cheerful" ness, 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...glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day" light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual se" renity. " Men of austere principles... | |
 | James Ewell - 1827 - 868 páginas
...Cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning,...through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for A moment. Cliccrfulness keeps up a kind of day light iu the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 páginas
...this account, distinguished by the forcible manner in which they are uttered. Thus in the sentence, Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity* ; the principal stress is laid upon certain substantives, adjectives, and verbs ; and the... | |
 | 1828 - 394 páginas
...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,... | |
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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... 
