Smith, Sidney · Edinburgh : William Tait ; London : Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. ... · leaf 185
was enormously developed, with the most entire destitution of ludi-crous perceptions, or the spirit of mirth. To compare Franklin with Sheridan asa wit, would be utterly absurd; yet he had large No. 20, while in the latter itwas only moderate. In the head of Dr. Price, here sketched from Spurzheims… … company. Next to him we may specify J. J. Rousseau, in whose forehead the organprojects like a pair of horns, and who was perhaps the most funereal personage inthe world. What, too, becomes of the sentiment of gaiety or mirthfulness in Moliere,who was known to be constitutionally melancholy, sad,…
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