Richard Whately Quote

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.


Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley (ed. 1856)


It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples...

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples...

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples...

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples...