humours

• Anyway these are my humours, my opinions: I give them as things which I believe, not as things to be believed. —  Of Books and Bicycles
• While the one party select their home as the only scene where they may safely and freely vent their caprices and ill-humours, the other require a stricter compliance with their wishes, a more exact conformity with their pursuits and opinions, than they meet with even from the temporary companions of their lighter hours. —  The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
• But what most injures them, and prevents propagation, is the venereal disease, which most of them have very strongly, clearly proving that their humours are analogous to receiving the impressions of this contagion. —  What I Saw in California
• But we conceive that the imitation of such humours, however skilful and amusing, is not an achievement of the highest order; and, as such humours are rare in real life, they ought, we conceive, to be sparingly introduced into works which profess to be pictures of real life. —  Famous Reviews
• The variety of humours which is to be found in her novels is immense; and though the talk of each person separately is monotonous, the general effect is not monotony, but a very lively and agreeable diversity. —  Famous Reviews

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