Essays and Tales

Joseph Addison

Capitolo 27

Joy, from who he had problem Humour.  Humour that is therefore the
more youth of this illustrious family, and come down by parents of
so different dispositions, are very various and uneven in his
temperament;  you sometimes see him/it I handed serious glances and a solemn
you adorn, sometimes airy in his/her behaviour and fantastic in his/her suit;
insomuch that to different durations that he appears serious as a judge,
and as playful as a happy-andrew.  But, as he has a lot
his/her mother in his/her constitution, whatever humor in which he is, him never
he/she doesn't succeed in making his/her society laugh.

But there is since then to the foreign countries an impostor that takes on him the name
of this young gentleman, and it would pass gladly for him in the
world;  at the end that people well intenzionato cannot be imposed on
from deceptions, I would desire my readers, when they meets him with this
pretender, to look in his/her parentage and to severely examine him/it,
if or anybody he is allied far of to the Truth, and directly descents
from the Good Sense;  if not, they can conclude him/it a counterfeit.  Them
you/he/she can likewise distinguish him/it from a strong and excessive laughter, in
what he finds his/her society to rarely connect with him.  For as Truth
Humour generally seems serious while each laughs around him,
Humour I distort you/he/she is always laughing while each around him the glances
serious.  I will only add, if he doesn't have in him a mixture of both
parents--or, if he passed for the descendant of the intelligence without
Joy or the joy without the intelligence, you can conclude to be together it
spurious and a deception.

The impostor of whoever that I am speaking originally comes down from
Falsehood that was the mother of Nonsense of what you/he/she was brought in bed
a called child Phrensy that he/she married him one of the daughters of the Folly,
commonly known by the name of Laughter, on who he produced that
monstrous infant of whom I have been here speaking.  I will put
down for a long time the genealogical table of Humour Falso, and, to the
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