Capitolo 25
an intelligence. Where this small petulant humour there is an author, him
it is often very harmful without planning for being this way. For that
reasons I always placed down it as a rule that an indiscreet man is more
what it hurts that a sick-natured one; for as that it will only attach his/her
hostile, and that to that he desires sick, the other one indifferently hurts
friends and enemies. I cannot abstain, on this occasion,
transcribing out a fable of Lord Roger L' Estrange that accidentally
lies in front of me. A society of pleasant boys was looking at frogs to
the side of a pond, and he/she anchors as some of them it put on their heads,
they would be depressed again their pelting with stones. "Children", it says
one of the frogs, "you never consider that although this is play to
You, 'death of tis to us."
As this week is separately in a set of way and devoted to serious
thoughts, I will be satisfied me in such speculations as you/he/she cannot be
together unfit to the season; and in the meantime as the
to establish in us a benevolent frame of mind is a lot a job
as amended for the time, I have in this endeavoured of the paper to show that
particular breakup of charity from which has generally been neglected
it foretells, because they is but little that can be guilty of him.
TRUTH IS FALSE HUMOUR.
- Risu inepto res east void ineptior.
CATULL., Carm. 39 in Egnat.
Nothing so foolish as the laughter of fools.
Among some the son-in-laws to write, are not anybody in which authors are more
proper to fail that in jobs of humour, nobody is as there in that
they is more ambitious to excel. It is not an imagination that
it abounds with monsters, a head that is filled with eccentric
conceptions that are able of piece of furniture the world with
diversions of this nature; and anchor, if we look in the productions
of many writers that put above for men of humour that that wild,
irregular desires, that unnatural distorsions of thought that we gather
with? If theirs speak nonsense, theirs believe that they is talking humour;
and when they has drawn together a scheme of absurdity, incoherent