Chearfulness

Let me therefore enter upon this noble cause with a chearfulness, grounded upon this assurance, that my adversary's cause is maintain'd by nothing but fraud, fallacy, ignorance and barbarity; whereas mine has light, truth, reason, the practice and the learning of the best ages of the world, of its side.

The Sun to the Terms of Mercury. It inclineth the native to be Mercurial, given to ſtudy Arts and Sciences, and to delight in reading, and to follow his Calling with chearfulneſs.

“Come, come,” ſaid Madame D’Alberg, forcing an appearance of chearfulneſs which ſhe was far from feeling; […]

Nature has made ſorrow and grief the companions of age, and beſtowed chearfulneſs on youth, to prepare it for the ſufferings of declining years. I never knew chearfulneſs.—My enjoyments have been the hard fare of a common ſoldier, and the ſeverity of the ſerjeant into the bargain.