The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 145Atlantic Monthly Company, 1930 - American literature |
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I ' LAUGHTER ' is a word , we are told by the philologists , that is a distant cousin of the Greek kλwoσev , ' to cluck ... But we need not go any further than our everyday speech to have it brought home to us that when we laugh we do ...
I ' LAUGHTER ' is a word , we are told by the philologists , that is a distant cousin of the Greek kλwoσev , ' to cluck ... But we need not go any further than our everyday speech to have it brought home to us that when we laugh we do ...
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Plato , in the Republic , censures Homer for having degraded the gods by making them laugh in the sentence : ' Inextinguishable laughter arase among the blessed gods , when they saw Hephaestus bustling about the mansion .
Plato , in the Republic , censures Homer for having degraded the gods by making them laugh in the sentence : ' Inextinguishable laughter arase among the blessed gods , when they saw Hephaestus bustling about the mansion .
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returns to and reiterates his warning . grandfather of the great Croesus that He writes :' he never laughed but once in ... to an appeal to her fellow countrymen to laugh a little less loudly and a little less frequently than they do .
returns to and reiterates his warning . grandfather of the great Croesus that He writes :' he never laughed but once in ... to an appeal to her fellow countrymen to laugh a little less loudly and a little less frequently than they do .
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