 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 páginas
...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 - 122 páginas
...are 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 - 428 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 páginas
...are 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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 páginas
...su'bject/ to the greatest depre'ssions of melancholy : on the contrary, che'erfulness (though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gla'dness) prevents us from falling into any de'pths-of -sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lTghtning, that breaks through a gloom of clou'ds, and... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 348 páginas
...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... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 390 páginas
...consider as an act, cheerfulness — as a hahit 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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 páginas
...contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the miad such an exquisite gladness, prevents us frorn falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that leaps through a gloom of clouds, and glitter* for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight... | |
 | 1851 - 316 páginas
...thither — every warning alarms against the danger of its eternal loss. MIRTH AND CHEERFULNESS. — " Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through...and glitters for a moment. Cheerfulness keeps up a daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Addison. THE FAMILY ALTAR.... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 350 páginas
...occur, and even to meet misfortune with calm resignation and serenity. It has been well observed, that " Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; while cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual... | |
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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 docs not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths... 
