 that the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth; " and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine humour, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet saw any man...  Annual Register of World Events - Página 11788Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 páginas
...less superb. He used to say, that " the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth;" and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine humour, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet saw... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 páginas
...less superb. He used to say, that " the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth;" and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine humour, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet saw... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 páginas
...Mrs. Piozzi, " used to say that " the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth ; " and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine ** humour, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 páginas
...iii. 173. 'Johnson say, say, 'that the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth ; ' and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine humour, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet saw... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 páginas
...iii. 173. 'Johnson say, say, 'that the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth ; ' and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine humour, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet saw... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 334 páginas
...says Mrs. Piozzi, "used to say that the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth ; and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine humor, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet saw... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 páginas
...less superb. He used to say, ' that the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth ; and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine humour, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet saw... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 302 páginas
...less superb. He used to say, "that the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth," and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine humour, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet saw... | |
 | Jeffrey O'Connell, Thomas E. O'Connell - 2008 - 208 páginas
...describes it, "He used to say, 'that the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth;' and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine humour, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet saw... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2000 - 270 páginas
...less superb. He used to say, "that the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth;" and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine humour, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet saw... | |
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