...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...and fills it with a steady' and perpetual serenity. I esteem a habit of benignity' greatly preferable to munificence*. The former is peculiar to great...

...depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that leaps through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of 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...

...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...

...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...

...permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through the gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light...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...

...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 serenity." If we wish to find a pattern of cheerfulness in the animal world, there can be little difficulty in...

...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...

...depths of sorrow. 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...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 10. Never before were there so many opposing interests, passions, and principles committed to such...

...of sorrow. 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...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...

...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 day-light...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." He considers cheerfulness in three points of view, as it regards ourselves, or those we converse with,...