 ... morality, and religion ten thousand times better than wit ;— wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters of men, than to observe it...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3701850Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...benevolence, and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and desptse it ; who can be witty, and something much better than...then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature, and its effects are seen in " expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, extorting reluctant... | |
 | 1848 - 704 pages
...can be witty, and something much better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than...then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pages
...can be witty, and something much better than witty ; who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than...with the following summary expression of his contempt : — " 1 have very little to say about puns ; they are in very bad jepute, and so they ought to be.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...can b6 witty, and something much belter than witty; who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, his spirits by the contemplation of " Ships a : — " 1 have very little to say about puns ; they are in very bad repute, and so they ought to be.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 910 pages
...by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can us« it and despise it ; who can be witty, and something...then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature, and its effects are seen in " expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, extorting reluctant... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 pages
...can use it and despise it, who can be witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion,...then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 pages
...can use it and despise it, who can be witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion,...then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters... | |
 | 1850 - 818 pages
...can be witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better...then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pages
...can be witty and something much letter than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better...then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 pages
...can be witty and something much better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better...then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters... | |
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