Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 |
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they laughed at one another till they were ready to drop down . Country people laugh at a person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule .
they laughed at one another till they were ready to drop down . Country people laugh at a person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule .
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You cannot force people to laugh , you cannot give a reason why they should laugh ; —they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse .
You cannot force people to laugh , you cannot give a reason why they should laugh ; —they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse .
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I will only add , by way of general caution , that there is nothing more ridiculous than laughter without a cause , nor anything more troublesome than what are called laughing people . A professed laugher is as contemptible and tiresome ...
I will only add , by way of general caution , that there is nothing more ridiculous than laughter without a cause , nor anything more troublesome than what are called laughing people . A professed laugher is as contemptible and tiresome ...
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On the Love of the Country | 3 |
On the Ignorance of the Learned | 13 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
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| Título | Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 Essays, William Hazlitt Nonesuch library The centenary edition of Hazlitt's Selected essays |
| Autor | William Hazlitt |
| Editor | Geoffrey Keynes |
| Edición | 2, reimpresa |
| Editor | Nonesuch Press, 1948 |
| Largo | 807 páginas |
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