 | John Trusler - English language - 1783 - 252 pages
...flam of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulnefs, keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. jijjurance, Impudence. dffurance is the faculty of pofleffing a man-s... | |
 | John Trusler - English language - 1783 - 352 pages
...flam of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulnefs, keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. j^ffurance, ImpaJence. dffurance is the faculty of pofleffing a man's... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...flam of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds* and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulnefs keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. Vr MEN of auftere principles look upon mirth as too wan. ton and diffolute... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...flafh of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clomli, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulnels keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. Speftater. 9. At the fame lime that I think difcrction the rhoft ufeful... | |
 | 1797 - 332 pages
...flafh of lightning, that breaks through " a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; CHEER" FULNESS keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and " fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. " If we confider CHEERFULNESS in three lights, " I. With regard to ourfelves,... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...flaih of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; chearfulnefs keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a Heady and perpetual ferenity. Men of auftere principles look upon mirth as too wanton and difTolute... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 pages
...iiafh of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment : cheerfulnefs keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. Chesrfulnefs of :nind is of a fcrious and competed nature ; it doss... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...is like a flash of lightning , that breaks through a gloom of clouds , and glitters for a moment ; Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind...is every moment obnoxious to the greatest dangers. XVriters of this complexion have observed , that the sacred Person who was the great pattern of perfection,... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, ?.B«! glitters for a moment: Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind,...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 2. Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too vranton and dissolute for a state of probation,... | |
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 
