 | Several Hands - 1774 - 642 pages
...and nauiiai/t honte, have got a very difagreeable and filly trick of laughing, whenever they fpeak : and I know a man of very good parts, Mr. Waller, who cannot fay the coinmonell thing without laughing; which makes thofe, who do not know him, take him at firft... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Books and reading - 1801 - 474 pages
...and mau-vaife hontc, have got a very difaereeable and filly trick of laughing whenever they fpeak : and I know a man of very good parts, Mr. Waller, who cannot fay the commonefl thing •without, laughing j which makes thofe, who do notHnow him,, take him at... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 430 pages
...people, at firSt from awkwardness and mauvaise honle, have got a vory disagreeable and silly triek of laughing, whenever they speak: and I know a man of very good pans. Mr. Waller, who eannot s:iy the eommonest thing without laughing; whieh makes those, who do not... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1831 - 290 pages
...and the shocking distortion of the face that it occasions. Many people, at first, from awkwardness, have got a very disagreeable and silly trick of laughing whenever they speak : and I know men of very good parts, who cannot say the commonest thing without laughing; which makes those who... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1836 - 96 pages
...and the shocking distortion of the face that it occasions. Many people, at first from awkwardness, have got a very disagreeable and silly trick of laughing whenever they speak ; and I know men of very good parts who cannot say the commonest thing without laughing, which makes those who do... | |
 | 1845 - 718 pages
...a cynical disposition ; and am as willing, and as apt to be ' pleased as any body ; but I am sure, that, since I have had the ' full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.' We suspect that his lordship himself would have done better if he had been heard to laugh ; — if... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1847 - 492 pages
...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
...melancholy nor a cynical disposition; and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as any body ; but I am sure that, since I have had the full 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 trick of laughing... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1859 - 476 pages
...nor a cynical disposition ; and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as any body ; but I am sure that, since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh." We suspect that his lordship himself would have done better if he had been heard to laugh ; — if... | |
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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... 
