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How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality (1880)

Bray, Charles, 1811-1884. [from old catalog], Sizer, Nelson · New York, S. R. Wells & co. · leaf 218

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e touchstoneof truth. True wit is not confined to the age of youth.There is in youth an exuberance of the tendency to laugh;almost anything to which they are not accustomed awak-ens the desire to laugh. But when the mind becomesripened by time and culture, real wit sparkles in the mindof the… … ALLEN GRIFFITH. MIRTHFULNESS. PLATE XXV. The Feeling of the Ludicrous. 171 more than the expression of a sudden feeling of happi-ness ; in time it becomes, in addition, the outward sign^v.of the sense of the ludicrous, which often shows itselfvto a degree which demands restraint; they know how--to…

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