 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...though it does not 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 a gloom of c loads and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...which of course engaged men in the study of the learned languages •nd of antiquity. Guardian. § 20. 824 я 1 state of probation, and as filled with a certain triumph and insolence of heart that is inconsistent... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1824 - 628 pages
...cheerfulness, though it does not give such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from fajhnjinto any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Mirth is sinful, 1. When men rejoice in that which is evil. 2. When unreasonable. 3. When tending to... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. - Mirth is like a flash ,of lightning that...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. which is every moment obnoxious to the greatest dangers. Writers of this complexion have observed,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...a gladness so exquisite, prevents it from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flush of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds,...austere principles look upon mirth, as too wanton dissolute for a state of probation, and as filled with a certain triumph and insolence of heart, that... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents »s from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth in like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom...clouds and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps a kind of <;.i , 1 _• 1 .1. in the wind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Spectator.... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, yet it prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Spectator. Happiest of all men to me seems the private man, nor can the opinion of ill-judging... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. dangers. Writers of this complexion have observed, that the sacred Person, who was the great pattern... | |
 | Phrenology - 1827 - 674 pages
...though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, " prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like " a flash of lightning, that...glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day" light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual se" renity. " Men of austere principles... | |
 | James Ewell - Cooking - 1827 - 868 pages
...Cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that...through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for A moment. Cliccrfulness keeps up a kind of day light iu the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."... | |
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Mirth 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, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 
