 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 glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind. Here the words in Italic...  American Journal of Education - Seite 3581827Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 Seiten
...-I'. ¥ 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 554 Seiten
...destroy. AMOK. 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 greatest depressions... | |
 | 1804 - 412 Seiten
...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 raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 Seiten
...fixed and permanent.—Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks througha gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." He considers cheerfulness in three points of view,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 Seiten
...ANON. 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 to the greatest depressVovvs... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 Seiten
...and 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... | |
 | 1810 - 350 Seiten
...ANON. 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 to the greatest depressions... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 Seiten
...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 raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 Seiten
...into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like vflash of lightning that breaks thro' a gloom of clouds, and glitters »' for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady ami perpetu.il serenity. 2. .Men of austere principles look u.;on mirth... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 Seiten
...any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a. flash of lightning, that bteaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. II. At the same time that 1 think discretion the... | |
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