 | 1867 - 964 páginas
...in spirit. Silver I and gold || have I none. Mirth || I consider ' as an act, cheerfulness ][ as a habit ' of the mind. Mirth || is short ' and transient, cheerfulness || fixed ' and permanent. Mirth || is like a flash of lightning, that gutters ' for a moment: cheerfulness [| keeps up a kind... | |
 | 1786 - 670 páginas
...ОГ THY MIND BISTROT. ANON. " IHave always preferred chearfulnefs to mirth. The latter I confider as an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth is fliort and traniient, cheai fulnei's fixed and permanent. Thofe are often railed into the greateft... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 páginas
...¥ HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. A The latter 1 consider as. an acr, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those ase often raised in16 the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...Ab insolenti temperatam : Lcetitid, moriture Deli. HoR. I.- . • HAVE always preferred qhearfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former...an habit, of the mind. Mirth is short and transient ; cheat-fulness, fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth,... | |
 | 1804 - 412 páginas
...resolved no one should reap any advantage fromthe discovery. E. BUDCELL. ON CHEERFULNESS. No. 387. 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 páginas
...one of the extremes , and is sometimes attended with both. SPECTATOR. CHAP. IL On Cheerfulness. JL 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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 páginas
...give you credit for ; and the more you say, the less they will believe you. OV CHEERFULNESS. K THAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The •*• latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of thn mind. Mirth Is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1807 - 508 páginas
...merriment. It is distinguished from cheerfulness thus : Mirth is considered as an act ; cheerfulness an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient...transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an exquisite... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 páginas
...fierce, unruly joy The settl'd quiet ef thy mind destroy. ANON. I HAVE always preferred dan-fulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former...often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who arc subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, ckeerfulness, though it does... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 páginas
...in one of the extremes, and is sometimes attended with both. SPECTATOR. CHAP. II. ON CHEERFULNESS. 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... | |
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I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. 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 subject... 
