The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... humour , what wild irre- gular fancies , what unnatural distortions of thought do we meet with ? If they speak nonsense , they be- lieve they are talking humour ; and when they have drawn together a scheme of absurd , inconsistent ideas ...
... humour , what wild irre- gular fancies , what unnatural distortions of thought do we meet with ? If they speak nonsense , they be- lieve they are talking humour ; and when they have drawn together a scheme of absurd , inconsistent ideas ...
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... Humour , and , at the same time , place under it the genealogy of True Humour , that the reader may at one view behold their different pedigrees and relations : Falsehood . Nonsense . Frenzy.Laughter . False Humour . Truth . Good Sense ...
... Humour , and , at the same time , place under it the genealogy of True Humour , that the reader may at one view behold their different pedigrees and relations : Falsehood . Nonsense . Frenzy.Laughter . False Humour . Truth . Good Sense ...
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... humour , in what part of the world 1 lived , that he had not seen me these three days . Monsieur Bruyere has given us the character of an absent man with a great deal of humour , which he has pushed to an agreeable extravagance : with ...
... humour , in what part of the world 1 lived , that he had not seen me these three days . Monsieur Bruyere has given us the character of an absent man with a great deal of humour , which he has pushed to an agreeable extravagance : with ...
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