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
| John Fawcett - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 218
...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...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... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 794
...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not ed foli ' depth of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...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,...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, and as... | |
| William Scott - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...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.... | |
| 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 454
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| Vicesimus Knox - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 452
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| 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 556
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| 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 780
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| General reader - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, yet it prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow....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... | |
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