 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 862
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...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. Spectator. 9. At the same time that I think discretion the most useful' talent a man can... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind snch an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fulling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitter* for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and liiislt with a steady... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...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 lightning, thai breaks through a gloom of clouds, aud glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give 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." Mirth is -sinful, 1. When men rejoice in that which is evil. 2. When unreasonable. 3. When... | |
 | Moral essays - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 188
...contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the Wind much exquisite gladness, prevents it from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, &nd fills it with a steady and perpetual se* fenity. » Men of austere principles look upon mirth sis... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. Cheerfulness is the health of the soul ; it is a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. • 8. Never be ashamed of being convinced, for he that is confuted is wiser than he was,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mindsuchan 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,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...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,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 682
...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... 
