 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - Philosophy, English - 1810 - 468 pages
...melancholy, nor a Cynical disposition ; and am as willing, and as apt to he pleased as any hody; hnt I am sure that, since I have had the full use- of my reason, nohody has ever heard me langh. Many people, at first from awkwardness and manvaise honte, have got... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1827 - 420 pages
...nor a Cynical disposition ; and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as any body ; but I am suj-e that, since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh. Many people, at first from awkwardness and mauvaise honte, have got a very disagreeable and silly trick... | |
 | 1845 - 718 pages
...seems hard that a gentleman should be restricted to u smile. But the prohibition is absolute : — ' Laughter is easily restrained by a little reflection...and not impressed the public with the notion that every thing he said or did was calculated. He was beyond all question the politest, best-bred, most... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 562 pages
...seems hard that a gentleman should be restricted to a smile. But the prohibition is absolute : — ' Laughter is easily restrained by a little reflection...that his lordship himself would have done better if Le had been heard to laugh; — if occasionally he had given way to a natural flow of spirits, and... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1847 - 492 pages
...a melancholy, nor a Cynical disposition ; and am as willing, and as apt, to be pleased as anybody ; but I am sure that, since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh. Many peoplf, at first from awkwardness and mauvaise horde, have got a very disagreeable and silly trick... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...very little reflection; but as it is generally connected with the idea of gaiety, people do not enough attend to its absurdity. I am neither of a melancholy...use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh. Many people, at fir>t. from awkwardness and ntaitvaise fionte, have got a very disagreeable HIM! silly... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 pages
...of a melancholy nor a cynical disposition ; and am as willing, and as apt to be pleased as anybody; but I am sure, that, since I have had the full use of my reason,| nobody has ever heard me laugh." His lordship's Edinburgh Reviewer suspects, with a sage as well as shrewd suspicion, that his lordship... | |
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I am neither of a melancholy nor a cynical disposition ; and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as anybody ; but I am sure that, since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh. 
