 | William Williams - 1890 - 360 páginas
...raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depression of melancholy. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." 6. The careful observance of the suggestions made under the head of Clearness. These, if... | |
 | William Fisher Markwick, William Alexander Smith - 1900 - 284 páginas
...preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Cheerfulness and good spirits depend in a great degree upon bodily causes ; but much may... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 páginas
...this account, distinguished by the forcible manner in which they are uttered. Thus in the sentence, «Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity,» the principal stress is laid upon certain substantives, adjectives, and verbs; and the... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 páginas
...this account, distinguished by the forcible manner in which they are uttered. Thus in the sentence, « Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity," the principal stress is laid upon certain substantives, adjectives, and verbs; and the rest... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 páginas
...cheerfulness, 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...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."— ADDISON : Spectator, No. 381. 198 STEELE. HAT do \ve look for in studying the history... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 266 páginas
...cheerfulness, 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...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too wanton and dissolute for a state of probation,... | |
 | George Earle Merkley - 1902 - 336 páginas
...cheerfulness, 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...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. moment obnoxious to the greatest dangers. Writers of this complexion have observed that the... | |
 | Oscar Israel Woodley, Myra Soper Woodley, George Rice Carpenter - 1902 - 186 páginas
...a careless word will produce. 17. To be useful in some degree is within the means of every one. 18. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual peace. 19. The eye that sees all things cannot see itself. 20. It often requires deep digging to obtain... | |
 | George Earle Merkley - 1902 - 336 páginas
...through a ness to mirth.) gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheer- Illustration, fulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Addison : The Spectator, No. 381. This paragraph has clearness, because it keeps thought... | |
 | 1903 - 668 páginas
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depth of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." A man's temperament Is made for him, but his habits are his own, and good 'humor and cheerfulness... | |
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... 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... 
