Laughter [ Communication ]
… or, Thoughts on Jesting, trans. Anon. (London: J. Newbery and W. Nicoll, 1764), p. 14. In eighteenth-century intellectual circles, however, good humour and laughter were not simply a matter of superficial good manners; they were elevated as an …
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