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Page iii
While the larger part of the contents is humorous , there are inserted many quotations of a serious nature which may serve as appropriate literary ballast . The jokes and quotes gathered for the toaster have been placed under the ...
While the larger part of the contents is humorous , there are inserted many quotations of a serious nature which may serve as appropriate literary ballast . The jokes and quotes gathered for the toaster have been placed under the ...
Page v
ON THE POSSESSION OF A SENSE OF HUMOR " Man , " says Hazlitt , " is the only animal that laughs and weeps , for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be .
ON THE POSSESSION OF A SENSE OF HUMOR " Man , " says Hazlitt , " is the only animal that laughs and weeps , for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be .
Page vi
But taking the matter seriously , how would one define humor ? When in doubt , consult the dictionary , is , as always , an excellent motto , and , following it , we find that our trustworthy friend , Noah Webster , does not fail us .
But taking the matter seriously , how would one define humor ? When in doubt , consult the dictionary , is , as always , an excellent motto , and , following it , we find that our trustworthy friend , Noah Webster , does not fail us .
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Which might give rise to some thoughts on the paradoxical subject of dry humor . Now in part this development is easily traced . Humor , meaning moisture of any kind , came to have a biological significance and was applied only to plant ...
Which might give rise to some thoughts on the paradoxical subject of dry humor . Now in part this development is easily traced . Humor , meaning moisture of any kind , came to have a biological significance and was applied only to plant ...
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plate the serious - yes and ludicrous - findings of the philosophers in their attempts to define humor and to explain laughter . Consider Hobbes : " The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from the sudden ...
plate the serious - yes and ludicrous - findings of the philosophers in their attempts to define humor and to explain laughter . Consider Hobbes : " The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from the sudden ...
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| Pealkiri | Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations |
| Editor | Harold Workman Williams |
| Compiled by | Clara Elizabeth Fanning, Harold Workman Williams, Halsey William Wilson |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | H.W. Wilson, 1916 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 11 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 483 pages |
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