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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. "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 426
1845
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Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope - 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...
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Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, Volume 1

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 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...
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Letters on education

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 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...
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Works, Including His Letters to His Son, &c: To which is Prefixed an ...

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...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 108

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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Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1857 - 642 pages
...enough attend to its absurdity. I am neither of a rnelnncholy nor a cynical disposition ; and am аз willing and as apt to be pleased as any body ; but...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...
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Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and ...

Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 pages
...sun." If a pretty woman and a lake may laugh, it seems hard that a gentleman should be restricted to a smile. But the prohibition is absolute •. — "...and not impressed the public with the notion that everything he said or did was calculated. He was beyond all question the politest, best-bred, most...
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Sydney Smith

Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 494 pages
...sun." If a pretty woman and a lake may laugh, it seems hard that a gentleman should be restricted to a smile. But the prohibition is absolute :—" Laughter...and not impressed the public with the notion that everything he said or did was calculated. He was beyond all question the politest, best-bred, most...
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Sidney Smith. Samuel Rogers. James Smith. George Selwyn. Lord Chesterfield ...

Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 pages
...seems hard that a gentleman should be restricted to a smile. But the prohibition is absolute t — " Laughter is easily restrained by a little reflection...and not impressed the public with the notion that everything he said or did was calculated. He was beyond all question the politest, best-bred, most...
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All the Year Round, Volume 15

1866 - 632 pages
...eannot help making reference from time to time, and who says in one of his ever-memorable letters : " I am sure that, since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me langh." I fancy, my dear father, from what 1 have heard you say, that we of the present generation...
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