Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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6. oldal
... morality , when once disarmed of their power to do hurt , become suffi- ciently ludicrous . We laugh at that in others which is a se- rious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is stronger than our sympathy , sooner takes the ...
... morality , when once disarmed of their power to do hurt , become suffi- ciently ludicrous . We laugh at that in others which is a se- rious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is stronger than our sympathy , sooner takes the ...
9. oldal
... moral lesson : it is one of the striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our nature . That which excites so lively and lasting an interest in itself , even though it should not be wisdom , is not despicable in the sight of reason ...
... moral lesson : it is one of the striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our nature . That which excites so lively and lasting an interest in itself , even though it should not be wisdom , is not despicable in the sight of reason ...
25. oldal
... moral philosophy is natural history . He makes an ass bray wisdom , and a frog croak humanity . The store of moral truth , and the fund of invention in exhibiting it in eternal forms , palpable and intelligible , and delightful to ...
... moral philosophy is natural history . He makes an ass bray wisdom , and a frog croak humanity . The store of moral truth , and the fund of invention in exhibiting it in eternal forms , palpable and intelligible , and delightful to ...
32. oldal
... moral constitution that refused to be roused to any keen agony of thought , and that was not very safely to be trifled with in lighter matters , though this last was allowed to pass off as the most pardonable offence against the gravity ...
... moral constitution that refused to be roused to any keen agony of thought , and that was not very safely to be trifled with in lighter matters , though this last was allowed to pass off as the most pardonable offence against the gravity ...
35. oldal
... morals than many of the charac- ters . Here are knaves and fools in abundance , of the meanest order , and stripped ... moral judgment , by bribing our self- love to side with them . Not to do so , is not morality , but affec- tation ...
... morals than many of the charac- ters . Here are knaves and fools in abundance , of the meanest order , and stripped ... moral judgment , by bribing our self- love to side with them . Not to do so , is not morality , but affec- tation ...
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