To which are added, three sheets of letter-press, containing a humorous character of the kingdom and people of Scotland, all the best political songs, and several original humorous essays, poems, &c. In two volumes London 1764 Australian/Harvard Citationġ764, The British antidote to caledonian poison : containing fifty-three anti-ministerial, political, satirical, and comic prints, for those remarkable years 1762, and 1763. Pridden, at the Feathers, in Fleet-Street and sold by the booksellers of London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. To which are now also added, two new prints, published since the last edition together with a key, for the better explanation of the whole work printed for J. so as to render the whole compleatly entertaining. The British antidote to caledonian poison : containing fifty-three anti-ministerial, political, satirical, and comic prints, for those remarkable years 1762, and 1763. To which are now also added, two new prints, published since the last edition together with a key, for the better explanation of the whole work. The British antidote to caledonian poison containing fifty-three anti-ministerial, political, satirical, and comic prints, for those remarkable years 1762, and 1763. Before adopting a fashionable idea, we ought first to enquire whether it twigs our sense of humor.(1764). "The loss of a sense of humor," believes Buckley, "has impoverished academic discourse, where nonsensical theories that could not survive the test of ridicule are now taken seriously. What is clear, however, is that they've become a target.īuckley's smart bomb? Laughter, which turns out to be not only the best medicine for living the good life, but the necessary preemptive strike in what the author sees as the fight to regain our sense of humor and beauty-even moral rectitude. But whether the arts need just a shot of beauty or the aesthetic equivalent of a heart transplant is still uncertain. Buckley, in this entirely entertaining book on the serious subject of laughter, takes the side of the guardians of good taste in the battle against the soulless forces of modernism.įor those who favor grace over grotesquerie, a so-called new classicism has emerged in recent years as an antidote to what many thinkers, conservative and otherwise, view as a perilously cynical decline in standards. But in an age of relativism that asks us not to be judgmental, the idea that laughter signals inferiority will seem very old-fashioned. "The last few decades have seen a welcome revival of scholarly interest in how we should live.
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