 Mirth 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...  The popular educator - Σελίδα 305των Popular educator - 1872Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | P. F. Merlet - 1858 - 188 σελίδες
...of sorrow.6 Mirth is like a fiish of lightning6 that b'-enks throngh'la gloom of clouds and glit/ers for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 σελίδες
..." I have 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 greatest depression... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 σελίδες
..." I have 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 greatest depression... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 σελίδες
..." I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter T 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 greatest depression... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 σελίδες
..." I have 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 arc subject to the greatest depression... | |
 | William Fleming - 1870 - 458 σελίδες
...Temper. " 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 to the greatest depression... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1871 - 288 σελίδες
...serene. 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,...permanent. 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 daylight... | |
 | William Fleming - 1871 - 448 σελίδες
...Temper. " 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 to the greatest depression... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1872 - 174 σελίδες
...and 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 raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | Robert Armstrong - 1872 - 344 σελίδες
...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 raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
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