 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 páginas
...The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often...raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are o-Hpct to the greatest depressions of melancholy. l ie contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not •... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 páginas
...mirth. The latter I consider at an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is thort and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often...On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not t;ive the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from failing into any depths of sorrow. Mirth... | |
 | William Driverger - 1820 - 648 páginas
...Are those your estates ? I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth; mirth is short and transient; cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. Those have a just claim to the admiration and gratitude of posterity, who have freed their countrymen... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 páginas
...mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a fcabitof the mim!. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are" often...mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions ofmelancholljr. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness,... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transport? of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions...the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind snch an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fulling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like... | |
 | Moral essays - 1821 - 188 páginas
...former as a halnt of the rain'd. Mirth is short and transient ; cheerfulness is fixed and permanent They are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depression of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the Wind much exquisite... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 páginas
...mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often...the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often...the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...Mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often...the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 páginas
...mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often...the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mindsuchan exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like... | |
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I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject... 
