 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 of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such...  The popular educator - Page 305by Popular educator - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1802 - 278 pages
...-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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 raised into the greatest transports of Mirth , who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...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... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...fepths of sorrow. 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...cheerfulness with which the first essay opens are uncommonly just and beautiful. " Mirth," says he, "is short and transient, cheerfulness 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...cheerfulness with which the first essay opens are uncommonly just and beautiful. " Mirth," says he/' is short and transient, cheerfulness 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... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christianity - 1807 - 508 pages
...merriment. It is distinguished from cheerfulness thus : Mirth is considered as an act ; cheerfulness 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 Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...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 raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1809 - 202 pages
...CHEERFULNESS. j T HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The ' J. latter I consider as 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... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...merriment. It is distinguished from cheerfulness thus : Mirth is considered as an act ; cheerfulness 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... | |
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