| 1855 - 620 pagina’s
...be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the...accompanied by many other talents of every description, and outfit to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. Almost all the... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pagina’s
...be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the...understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty. Cassar, Alexander, Aristotle, Descartes, and Lord Bacon, were... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 pagina’s
...be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the...understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty. Caesar, Alexander, Aristotle, Descartes, and Lord Bacon, were... | |
| 1850 - 896 pagina’s
...be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be. that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the...evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. Almost ill the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty, Cícsíir, Alexander. Aristotle,... | |
| charles black - 1850 - 630 pagina’s
...be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the...evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. ... I have talked of the danger of wit: I do not mean by that to enter into common-place declamation... | |
| 1850 - 608 pagina’s
...be disposed to look to much mare than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the...evidence of a fertile and superior understanding." — pp. 149 — 151. • On the subject of the influence of association in matters of taste, the lecturer... | |
| 1850 - 604 pagina’s
...be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be) that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the...evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. . . . I have talked of the danger of wit ; I do not mean by that to enter into common- place declamation... | |
| 1850 - 550 pagina’s
...be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the...evidence of a fertile and superior understanding." — pp. 149 - 151. On the subject of the influence of association in matters of taste, the lecturer... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pagina’s
...be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the...evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. . . I have talked of the danger of wit; I do not mean by that to enter into common-place declamation... | |
| 1850 - 818 pagina’s
...seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the mind of any man : it is commonly accompanied with many other talents of every description, and ought...understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty. <' i su¡, ALEXANDER, ARISTOTLE, DESCARTES, and Lord BACoN,were... | |
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