 | Charles Buck - 1824 - 628 páginas
...considered as an act ; cheerfulnest an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient ; c/ieerfulnctt fixed and permanent. " Those are often raised into...give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fajhnjinto any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of... | |
 | 1824 - 348 páginas
...mirth. The latJLter I consider as an act, the former 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... | |
 | 1824 - 268 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depth of sorrow. Mirth is like... | |
 | John Fawcett - 1824 - 218 páginas
...the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permament. Those are often raised into the greatest transports...the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling intd the depths of sorrow. Mirth is like... | |
 | 1824 - 188 páginas
...former as a habit of the mind. 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 mind much exquisite... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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... | |
 | 1827 - 674 páginas
...The latter I con" aider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short " and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often...greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerful" ness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, " prevents us from falling... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 páginas
...Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the highest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest...the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, yet it prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth... | |
 | James Ewell - 1827 - 868 páginas
...indulgence, or \hejlutter of light amusements. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of joy, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy:...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... | |
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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... 
