The Spectator, Volume 3George Gregory Smith Dent, 1963 - English essays |
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Page 192
... Chearfulness of Mind is not liable to any of these Exceptions ; it is of a serious and composed Nature , it does not throw the Mind into a Condition improper for the present State of Humanity , and is very conspicuous in the Characters ...
... Chearfulness of Mind is not liable to any of these Exceptions ; it is of a serious and composed Nature , it does not throw the Mind into a Condition improper for the present State of Humanity , and is very conspicuous in the Characters ...
Page 193
... Chearfulness in an ill Man deserves a harder Name than Language can furnish us with , and is many Degrees beyond what we commonly call Folly or Madness . Atheism , by which I mean a Disbelief of a Supreme Being , and consequently of a ...
... Chearfulness in an ill Man deserves a harder Name than Language can furnish us with , and is many Degrees beyond what we commonly call Folly or Madness . Atheism , by which I mean a Disbelief of a Supreme Being , and consequently of a ...
Page 208
... Chearfulness as it is a Moral Habit of the Mind , and accordingly mentioned such moral Motives as are apt to cherish and keep alive this happy Temper in the Soul of Man : I shall now consider Chearfulness in its Natural State , and ...
... Chearfulness as it is a Moral Habit of the Mind , and accordingly mentioned such moral Motives as are apt to cherish and keep alive this happy Temper in the Soul of Man : I shall now consider Chearfulness in its Natural State , and ...
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