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...division, Is ridicule a test of truth? References : Shaftesbury's "Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor"; Akenside's "Pleasures of the Imagination," note on 3d Book; Bentham's "Works," Vol. 11. pp. 114, 360. Specimens of ridicule employed argumentatively : many of Swift's Works, The Spectator passim, British Essayists, Petroleum V. Nasby's Letters. Time, second Monday in May. 2d division : Are we justified in pursuing sports which have for their aim or issue the suffering and death of the lower animals? References : Works of Soame Jenyns, Vol. III. p. 186 et seq.; Memoirs of the Manchester Literary...
...Vulgate, passim...
...find this expression strangely coincident with our own cant phrase, "know a thing or two." Also of. CARLYLE, passim...