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... The British Essayists;: Spectator - الصفحة 2بواسطة Alexander Chalmers - 1808عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 418
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| William Enfield - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary , Cheerfulness , though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness , prevents...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... | |
| 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Cheerfulness is, in the first place, the best promoter of health. Repinings, and secret murmurs of... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, chearfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents...through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; chearfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.... | |
| Noah Webster - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...though it docs not give; the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fa!':i)g into any fepths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, ?.B«! glitters for a moment: Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. — Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks througha gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." He considers cheerfulness in three points of view, as it regards ourselves, or those we converse with,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. — Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks througha gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." He considers cheerfulness in three points of view, as it regards ourselves, or those we converse with,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...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.... | |
| Charles Buck - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from talling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual seremty." ' . MISANTHROPIST, w**9fovns, a hater of mankind ; one that abandons society from a principle... | |
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