 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
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1913 - 660 oldal
...shou'd be said of me, that there was never any such Man as Plutarch, than that Plutarch was ilbnatured, capricious or inhumane, If we may believe our Logicians,...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 oldal
...why the Roman Empire fell. Lord Derby (b. 1918) British administrator See Johnson on SPEECH Laughter If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished...from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 oldal
...the biography, "Those were her last words, but they say what she had always been saying." Laughter 1 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished...heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. JOSEPH ADDISON, (1672-1719) British essayist. Spectator (London, Sept. 26, 1712), no. 494, The Spectator,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 oldal
...man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides. 67 The Spectator by those who hear it. 5010 So far war has been the...force that can discipline a whole community, and 68 The Spectator A woman seldom asks advice until she has bought her wedding clothes. Sunday clears... | |
 | Michael C. Corballis - 2003 - 280 oldal
...with human conversational language.21 Joseph Addison, the seventeenth-century English essayist, wrote: "If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished...from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter"" — which simply shows that you can't always rely on logic. Laughter is actually common to many species,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1860 - 136 oldal
...saw him. I saw him onlg. I only discharged my duty to the public. He avoids giving offence properly. It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them. By greatness I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view. It... | |
 | George Wright Buckley - 1901 - 262 oldal
...— Dr. CC Everett. The Wit and Wisdom fesus of J< I Humor Versus Criticism "If tee may believe oar logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. If we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it, and bow often it breaks the gloom which is... | |
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