| Charles Palmer (Deputy Serjeant of the House of Commons.) - 1748 - 342 str.
...flafli of lightening, that breaks thro' a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment. Chearfulnefs keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. 1 152. It is a pitiful fneaking fort of life, that of a backbiter, always... | |
| John Trusler - 1783 - 252 str.
...flam of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulnefs, keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. jijjurance, Impudence. dffurance is the faculty of pofleffing a man-s... | |
| John Trusler - 1783 - 352 str.
...flam of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulnefs, keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. j^ffurance, ImpaJence. dffurance is the faculty of pofleffing a man's... | |
| William Enfield - 1785 - 460 str.
...flam of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds* and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulnefs keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. Vr MEN of auftere principles look upon mirth as too wan. ton and diffolute... | |
| William Scott - 1789 - 416 str.
...flafh of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clomli, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulnels keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. Speftater. 9. At the fame lime that I think difcrction the rhoft ufeful... | |
| 1797 - 332 str.
...flafh of lightning, that breaks through " a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; CHEER" FULNESS keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and " fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. " If we confider CHEERFULNESS in three lights, " I. With regard to ourfelves,... | |
| 1797 - 680 str.
...flaih of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; chearfulnefs keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a Heady and perpetual ferenity. Men of auftere principles look upon mirth as too wanton and difTolute... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 str.
...iiafh of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment : cheerfulnefs keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a fteady and perpetual ferenity. Chesrfulnefs of :nind is of a fcrious and competed nature ; it doss... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 str.
...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...is every moment obnoxious to the greatest dangers. XVriters of this complexion have observed , that the sacred Person who was the great pattern of perfection,... | |
| Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 str.
...Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, ?.B«! glitters for a moment: Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind,...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 2. Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too vranton and dissolute for a state of probation,... | |
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