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No; he answered, 'So I would, your arnr, if he had run at me with his tail! Now, that was genuine wit, mixed with quite enough fun to make an intelligent person laugh; and then you told it so drolly ha! ha!" "They did not laugh at that?" "Sat as grave as judges." "And you tell me they are not fools." "I must repeat, they have not that excuse. Perhaps their risibility had been exhausted.
The emotions have no basis in reason. We smile or are sad at the manifestation of jealousy in another. We smile or are sad because of the unreasonableness of it. Likewise we smile at the antics of the lover. The absurdities he is guilty of, the capers he cuts, excite our philosophic risibility. We say he is mad as a March hare.
If a man swear that his neighbour has put him in bodily fear, he may have the cause of his terror sent to gaol; thus the feelings of the plaintiff become the measure of the defendant's guilt. As we cannot extend this convenient principle to all matters of taste, and all subjects of risibility, we are still compelled to acknowledge that no accurate definition of a bull has yet been given.
"Senor Montalvo," he said austerely, "you are surely forgetting yourself. I see nothing at all in that truculent young Englishman's threat that is in the least degree calculated to excite the risibility of anyone whose misfortune it is to be a dweller in this god-forsaken city of Nombre de Dios.
Familiar as all present were with the story whose stimulus of agonising risibility they had all in turn experienced, it was with extreme difficulty that any of them could resist the fatal explosion which was to be attended with the dreaded penalty. Lord Beaumanoir looked on the table with desperate seriousness, an ominous pucker quivering round his lip; Mr.
Y , who sat opposite, gave me such a comical look when the second goose made its appearance, that I found it impossible to suppress my risibility, which, unfortunately for me, exploded just as the preacher who, of course, mentally consigned me to perdition commenced a long grace; but if the Governor-General himself had been present, I do not think I could have restrained my inclination to laugh.
My first impulse, after amazement had a little subsided, was to laugh immoderately; in this I was joined by Stubbes, who, feeling that his mirth was participated in, gave full vent to his risibility.
"Agreed," said Marchdale; and they both stepped forward at a rapid pace, to meet the advancing throng. The crowd which had now approached to within a short distance of the expectant little party, was of a most motley description, and its appearance, under many circumstances, would cause considerable risibility.
It were to be wished, that all who write for it hereafter would raise their Genius, by the Ambition of pleasing People of the best Understanding; and leave others who shew nothing of the Human Species but Risibility, to seek their Diversion at the Bear-Garden, or some other Privileg'd Place, where Reason and Good-manners have no Right to disturb them. August 8, 1711. I am, &c.
Possessed of a wonderful amount of loquacity, great risibility, but no stability a creature of impulse a grown child, in short at first sight it seems wonderful how he can be trained to work; for there is now law, no home to bind him he could run away at any moment; and presuming on this, he sins, expecting to be forgiven.
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