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Old Price's remains: præhumous, or during life
Old Price's remains prhumous or during life Author:John Price Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LEVIORA TO RELIEVE THE WEARY. "Tradidit Fessis—Leviora."—Hor. None of your what, Madam ! Your jokes, Sir, your jokes. Old Play, ? Well, but there... more » if "a time to laugh." This exclusively human act (or suffering?—don't your ribs suffer from it at times?) is admitted amongst the 2g specified things of which God Himself testifies that they are, at any rate, not always wrong. Nor could I be led, by the most forcible arguments, to believe that laughter, which is, (like worship,) peculiar to the one reasonable animal (Apage Hya;nam, " Larum ridibundum" et, si qua sunt, similia,) and which is so often involuntary, invading, per foree, the sacrosanct solemnity of the Grand-Jury-Box, the Pew, nay, the very School-room itself, can partake of a character essentially sinful. Will you gravely'tell me, Madam, that Adam and Eve, had they continued in innocence long enough to rear kids and kittens, would have been too innocent to laugh at their antics? As well might you try to bring in those younglings guilty of a misdemeanor, for capering. The very expression, " the laughter of the fool" Eccl., vii, 6, suggests of itself that there are two sorts of laughter. And methinks the right sort would not be ill employed in laughing down those who would fain frown it out of countenance as an impropriety. There are wicked and false, as well as foolish motives to laughter. May God keep us from all those. But I verily believe innocentlaughter, in moderation, to be a blessing to the whole man, body, soul, and spirit; and I can heartily thank God, whose gift I believe it to be, if I can be the means of dispensing it, without falling into fuapoXtr/m r evrpaTreia, Eph., v. 4, the latter of which words has two very distinct meanings. To the association of the " gay" -with the "grave," I see no valid...« less