 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind snch an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fulling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of...lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitter* for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and liiislt with a steady... | |
 | Moral essays - 1821 - 188 pages
...on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the Wind much exquisite gladness, prevents it from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like...cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, &nd fills it with a steady and perpetual se* fenity. » Men of austere principles look upon mirth sis... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1822 - 252 pages
...amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. Cheerfulness is the health of the soul ; it is a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. • 8. Never be ashamed of being convinced, for he that is confuted is wiser than he was, and therefore... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...greatest depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 pages
...greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mindsuchan exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into...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... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...flash of lightning , that breaks through a gloom of c loads and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it... | |
 | 1824 - 268 pages
...greatest depressions of melancholy: on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...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... | |
 | 1824 - 348 pages
...greatest depressions of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. which is every moment obnoxious to the greatest dangers. Writers of this complexion have observed,... | |
 | 1824 - 188 pages
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind much exquisite gladness, prevents it from falling into any depth of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that...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 - 794 pages
...though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depth and J. Rivington Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too wanton and dissolute for я 1 state of probation,... | |
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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... 
