...this account, distinguished by the forcible manner in which they are uttered. Thus in the sentence, Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity* ; the principal stress is laid upon certain substantives, adjectives, and verbs ; and the rest of the...

...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 depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters...

...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...

...is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind. Here the words in Italic take no visible pause after them, without violence to grammatical relation....

...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; on me contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glittei-s foc a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-j light in the mind, and fills it with...

...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though 'I does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents...is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a floom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness eeps up a kind of day light in the mind, and...

...to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from, falling...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 tending to...

...to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; on the 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 ot lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps...

...depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an extjuisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash ot lightning, that breaks through a gloom of cknids, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps...

...inworks: when he confrass the influence of mirth and cheerful* ness, it is in a simile. " Mirth," he says, "is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through...clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady aiid perpetual serenity." Again, how beautifully...