[17] Beattie was unfortunate in selecting Moliere for his comparison, for his humour is especially that of situation and can be tolerably well understood by a foreigner. [18] Thus we speak of "fried ice" or "ice with the chill off." [19] It may be observed that as men's perceptions of humour are different, so in the expression of them there is a character about laughter in accordance with its subject, and with the person from whom it comes. [20] This term seems the nearest, though not quite accurate. [21] Ruskin observes that the smile on the lips of the Apollo Belvedere is inconsistent with divinity. [22] The false generalisations of childhood are well represented by Dickens when, in "Great Expectations," he makes Pip discover a singular affinity between seeds and corduroys. "Mr. Pumblechook wore corduroys, and so did his shopman, and somehow there was a general air and flavour about the corduroys so much in the nature of seeds, and such a general air and flavour about the seeds in the nature of corduroys that I hardly knew which was which." [23] Critias was one of the thirty tyrants who condemned him. [24] That the present style of men's dress is unbecoming strikes us forcibly when we see it reproduced in statues, where we are not used to it. [25] Cicero uses two corresponding words cavillatio and dicacitas, the former signifying continuous, the latter aphoristic humour. END. London: Printed by A. Schulze, 13 Poland Street.