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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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ary back; thou dost lay salve to the feet and cut by the flints and shorts, thou takest blood-making melancholy by the nose, and makest it grin despite itself; that all the sorrows of the past, the doubts of the future, confoundest in the joy of the present, that makest man truly philosophic, conqueror of himself and earth! What was talked of as the golden chain of Jove was nothing but a succession of laughs, a chro seals of merriment, reaching from earth to Olympus. It is not true that Prometheus state the fire, but the laughter of the gods, to our clay, and in the abundance of our merriment to make us reasonable creatures. "Have you ever considered what man would be, destitute of the ennobling faculty of laughter! Laughter is to the face of man what synovia, I think call it, is to his joints — it oils, lubricates, and makes the human counter once divine. Without it, our faces would have been rigid, hyena-like; the iniquities of our hearts, with no sweet antidote to work u