 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1845 - 312 pages
...prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that leaps through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment...daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady, perpetual serenity. 2. If we consider cheerfulness in three lights, with regard to ourselves, to those... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...consider as an act, cheerfulness — as a habit of the mind. Mirth — is like a flash of lightning, that glitters for a moment; cheerfulness — keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind. 4. Men will wrangle for religion ; write for it; fight for it; die for it; any thing but — live for... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 pages
...consider as an act, cheerfulness — as a hahit of the mind. Mirth — is like a flash of lightning, that glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness — keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind. 4. Men will wrangle for religion ; write for it; fight for it; die for it; any thing but — live for... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...transient ; cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through the gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 1 esteem a habit of benignity greatly preferable to munificence. The former is peculiar to great and... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1851 - 316 pages
...thither — every warning alarms against the danger of its eternal loss. MIRTH AND CHEERFULNESS. — " Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through...and glitters for a moment. Cheerfulness keeps up a daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Addison. THE FAMILY ALTAR.... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 350 pages
...occur, and even to meet misfortune with calm resignation and serenity. It has been well observed, that " Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; while cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1848 - 324 pages
...thousand ways, is there no black or white ? — Pope. LESSON XVII.— RULE XIII. Cheerfulness f<eeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.— ^-Addison. King Solomon built a temple, and dedicated it to the Almighty. — Allen, The pleasures... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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. 10. Never before were there so many opposing interests, passions, and principles committed to such... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 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. greatest dangers. "Writers of this complexion have observed that the sacred Person, who was the great... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 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. Never before were there so many opposing interests, passions, and principles committed to such a decision.... | |
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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. 
