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, Sizer, Nelson · New York : S.R. Wells & Co., Publishers · leaf 222
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 signof the sense of the ludicrous, which often shows itselfto a degree which demands restraint; they know howto…
Phrenology · Emotions
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