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 to... The British Essayists: The Spectator - Sida viiefter Alexander Chalmers - 1802Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| 1786 - 670 sidor
...•r.OTJ.-r.'fent wuii a life \vt;cb It 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 sidor
...¥ 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... | |
| 1804 - 412 sidor
...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... | |
| Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 sidor
...many ways useful to those who are possessed of them. ' JL latter I consideras an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those arc often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
| William Taylor - 1813 - 328 sidor
...momentary brilliance, cheerfulness is the day-light of the smil, which steeps it in perpetual serenity. Those are often raised into the greatest transports...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; whereas cheerfulness, though it does nut give the mind such exquisite gladness, prevents our falling... | |
| Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 sidor
...preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The a. latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mini},. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and...on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 sidor
...starves •It; • ' Spectator. the circulation of the blood, temperance gives nature her full 8. 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... | |
| Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 sidor
...And ib there no attention to be paid to the use of the tongue, the glory of man ? LESSON LXI. 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, cheeifulness fixed and permanent. Those are often... | |
| Charles Buck - 1815 - 546 sidor
...and muaient: cheerfulness fixed and permanent. " Those are often raised into the greatest transport» of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions...on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 sidor
...men in the study of the learned languages and of antiquity. Guardian. § 20. On Chctrfulnns. 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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