| Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 294 sider
...laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. How much lies in Laughter : the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man ! Some men wear an everlasting...they were laughing through wool : of none such comes good. The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; but his whole... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 sider
...laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. How much lies in laughter ; the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man! Some men wear an everlasting...they were laughing through wool ; of none such comes good. The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; but- his whole... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 sider
...laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. How much lies in Laughter : the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man ! Some men wear an everlasting...they were laughing through wool : of none such comes good. The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; but his whole... | |
| 1842 - 452 sider
...laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. How much lies in laughter — the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man ! Some men wear an everlasting...simper ; in the smile of others, lies a cold glitter of ice; the fewest are able to laugh what can be called laughing, but only sniff and titter and snigger... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 490 sider
...laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. How much lies in Laughter : the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man ! Some men wear an everlasting...they were laughing through wool : of none such comes good. The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : but his whole... | |
| 1847 - 886 sider
...cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man ! Some men wear an everlasting barren simper ; in the ivory smile of others lies a cold glitter, as of ice : the fewest are able to langh what can be called laughing, but only sniff and titter from the throat outward ; or at best produce... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 654 sider
...wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man! Some men wear an everlasting...they were laughing through wool: of none such comes good. The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; but his whole... | |
| Charles Rumball - 1851 - 412 sider
...wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. How much lies in laughter? the cipher key, wherewith we decipher the whole man ! Some men wear an everlasting...titter, and snigger from the throat outwards ; or at least produce some whiffling husky cachinnation, as if they were laughing through wooL Of none such... | |
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