| Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1711 - 402 pages
...at leaft to cuitivate and improve. Thefe, in my Opinion, are Chearfulnefs and Conftancy. A chearful Temper joined with Innocence, will make Beauty attractive, Knowledge delightful, and Wit goocl-natured. It will lighten Sicknefs, Poverty, and Affliction; convert Ignorance into an amiable... | |
| 1728 - 340 pages
...or .at leaft to cultivate and improve. Thefe, in my Opinion, areChearfulnefsandConftancy. A chearful Temper joined with Innocence will make Beauty attractive....delightful., -and Wit good-natured. It will lighten Siejciiefs, ' Poverty, and Affliction, convert Ignorance into an amiable Simplicity, and render Deformity... | |
| Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1754 - 360 pages
...at leall to cultivate and improve. Thefe, in my Opinion, are Chearfulnefs and Conllancy. A chearful Temper joined with Innocence will make Beauty attractive, Knowledge delightful, and Wit good natured. It will lighten Sicknefs, Poverty, and Affliction, convert Ignorance into an amiable... | |
| Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - English essays - 1774 - 366 pages
...at leaft to cultivate and improve. TheTe, irf my opinion, are chearfulnefs and conftaney. A ehearful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive,...delightful, and wit good-natured. It Will lighten ficknefs, poverty, and affliction ; convert ignorance into an amiable fi.mpHcity ; and render deformity... | |
| Gorges Edmond Howard - 1782 - 376 pages
...fudden fun-fhine, that awakens a fecret delight in the mind without her attending to it. A cheerful temper joined, with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and •wit good-natured. Cheerfulnefs will lighten ficknefs, poverty and affliction; convert ignorance into an amiable fimplicity,... | |
| 1804 - 676 pages
...cheerfulness and constancy. A cheerful temper, joined witli innocence, will make beauty attraetive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. It will...lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction; convert rert ignorance into an amiable simplicity ; and render deformity itself agreeable. Constancy is natural... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 348 pages
...at least to cultivate and improve. These, in my opinion, are cheerfulness and constancy. A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive,...acquired by those of. the. greatest fickleness, violence, andpassion, who consider seriously the terms of union upon which they come together, the mutual interest... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 412 pages
...at least to cultivate and improve. These, in my opinion, are cheerfulness and constancy. A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive,...agreeable. Constancy is natural to persons of even temper? and uniform dispositions, and may be acquired by •those of the greatest fickleness, violence,... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...is in him, however faint and weak ; but if he prays no more, religion is dead within him. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction ; convert ignorance into an amiable... | |
| William Pinnock - Readers (Elementary) - 1822 - 252 pages
...inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance of it. 7-' A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive;...delightful; and wit, good-natured; it will lighten affliction, convert ignorance into amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. Cheerfulness... | |
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