 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...  Annual Report - Page 92by Saskatchewan. Department of Education - 1910Full view - About this book
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1802 - 278 pages
...the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those ase often raised in16 the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject...does not giVe the mind such an exquisite gladness, pitvents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is' like a ftar.ii of lightning that bresks... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 418 pages
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 | 1804 - 412 pages
...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...give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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...give the mind such an exquisite gladness , prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning , that breaks through... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...former as an habit, of the mind. Mirth is short and transient ; cheat-fulness, fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports...greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, chearfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...the former as a habit of thn mind. Mirth Is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, -who are sebject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it docs not... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christianity - 1807 - 508 pages
...cheerfulness an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient ; cheerfulness fixed and permanent. " Those are often raised into the greatest transports...the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from talling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...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...give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1809 - 202 pages
...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,...subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy ; qn the contrary, cheerfulness, though &. does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents... | |
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