...friend is always welcome, and one of the greateft comforts of life. Mirth, fays Addifon, is like a flam of lightning that breaks through . a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment : chearfulnefs keeps up a kind of funmine in the foul, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity....

...an exquiflte gladnefs, " prevents us from falling into any depths of forrow. " MIRTH is like a flafh of lightning, that breaks through " a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; CHEER" FULNESS keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and " fills it with a fteady and perpetual...

...flaih of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; chearfulnefs keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a Heady and perpetual ferenity. Men of auftere principles look upon mirth as too wanton and difTolute...

...melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulnefs, though it does not give the mind fuch an exquifite gladntfs, prevents us from falling into any .depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a iiafh of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment : cheerfulnefs...

...on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not giVe the mind such an exquisite gladness, pitvents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is' like a ftar.ii of lightning that bresks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a ^moment ; cheerfulness...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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,...