 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
 | Charles Buck - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 500
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 | 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 122
...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...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 - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents...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... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...consider as an act, cheerfulness — as a habit of the mind. Mirth — is like a flash of lightning, that glitters for a moment; cheerfulness — keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind. 4. Men will wrangle for religion ; write for it; fight for it; die for it; any thing but — live for... | |
 | George Earle Merkley - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...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. moment obnoxious to the greatest dangers. Writers of this complexion have observed that the Sacred... | |
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