 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 British Essayists: The Spectator - Strana viipodľa Alexander Chalmers - 1802Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - Počet stránok 442
...CHEERFULNESS.— I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The former is an act, the latter, a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient; cheerfulness,...fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the highest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - Počet stránok 548
...every moment obnoxious to the greatest dangers. Writers of this complexion have observed that 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... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - Počet stránok 194
...be shown, if there were occasion for it.—ADDISON. II.—Cheerfulness preferable to Mirth. 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... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - Počet stránok 272
...right exercise of our intellectual powers, arises one of the chief sources of our happiness. 6. 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... | |
 | John Todd - 1853 - Počet stránok 302
...it is not what you want. Let the beautiful pen of Addison instruct you. " I have always," says he, " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - Počet stránok 314
...death-bed, to ask him whether the Christian religion was true."—Dr. YOUNG (Spence'a Ante dotes). " I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter...transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depression of melancholy: on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - Počet stránok 710
...former as an habit of the mind. Mirth ' V. Xos. 387-393.—C. ia short and transient, chearfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subjeet to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, chearfulness, though it does not... | |
 | John Todd - 1854 - Počet stránok 290
...it is not what you want. Let the beautiful pen of Addison instruct you. " I have always," says he, " 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... | |
 | John Todd - 1854 - Počet stránok 306
...it is not what you want. Let the beautiful pen of Addison instruct you. " I have always," says he, " 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... | |
 | 1855 - Počet stránok 600
...imperceptibly vanish from hit grasp !—Bainbrigge. CHEERFULNESS AND MIRTH. CHEEHÏULNESS is an act—mirth, a habit, of the mind. Mirth is short and transient;...On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into nay depths of sorrow. Mirth... | |
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