 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to...  Select British Classics - 99. oldal1803Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Jacob Rau Spiegel - 1879 - 310 oldal
...w/and explain these terms in "There is none righteous; no, not one." 340. Is not properly placed in "It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them." 350. Parse there in " There is one glory of the sun," etc. 351. Parse never and so in "The Lord reigneth,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 712 oldal
...there was never any such man as Plutarch, than that Plutarch was ill-natured, capricious, or inhuman.' If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished...It is not the ' business of virtue to extirpate the aflections of the mind, but to regulate them. It may moderate and restrain, but was not designed to... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 oldal
...would take care not to grow .too wise for so great a pleasure of life. ADDISON: Spectator, No. 249. see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider...vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly f ADDISON. In laughing there ever precedeth a conceit of something ridiculous, and therefore it is proper... | |
 | 1881
...childhood for being playful. " If we may believe our logicians," says Acdison,in the same paper, " man is distinguished from all other creatures by the...heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it." And the Spectator argues, accordingly, that the business of virtue is, not to extirpate the affections... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 oldal
...Patience, Praise, Prudence, Reputation, Secrecy, Self-respect, Silence, Soul, Tenderness, Vanity, Vice. It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them. 5039 Addison : The Spectator. No. 494. A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envioth virtue in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 572 oldal
...God, does him less dishonour than the man who owns his being, but at the same time believes him to 20 be cruel, hard to please, and terrible to human nature....business of virtue to extirpate the affections of thq mind, but to regulate them. It may moderate and restrain, but was not designed to banish gladness... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 oldal
...there never was any such man as Plutarch, than that Plutarch was ill-natured, capricious, or inhuman. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished...designed to banish gladness from the heart of man. Eeligion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 342 oldal
...cruel, hard to please, and terrible to humane Nature. For my own Part, says he, I wou'd rather it shou'd be said of me, that there was never any such Man as...other Creatures, by the Faculty of Laughter. He has an Heart capable of Mirth, and naturally disposed to it It is not the Business of Virtue to extirpate... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 438 oldal
...there was never any such man as Plutarch, than that Plutarch was ill-natured, capricious, or inhuman.' If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished...other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has an heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. It is not the business of virtue to extirpate... | |
 | George Wright Buckley - 1901 - 232 oldal
...the hard facts of life. — Dr. CC Everett. The Wit and Wisdom [esus of J< I Humor Versus Criticism "If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished...from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. If we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it, and ho^v often it breaks the gloom which is... | |
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