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" But when wit is combined with sense and information, when it is softened by benevolence and restrained by strong principle, when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise it, who can be witty, and something much better than witty, who loves... "
the edinburgh review, of critical journal - Page 370
by charles black - 1850
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1850 - 806 pages
...sense and information ; when it is softened by 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 witty — who loves honour, justice,...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 12

1848 - 704 pages
...sense and information ; -when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise...better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than wit ; wit is then a beautiful and...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 60

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1862 - 628 pages
...when it is softened by benevolence and restrained by strong principle, when it is in the hands of one who can be witty, and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality, religion, a thousand times better than wit, then it...
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ...

Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pages
...sense and information; when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise...better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better thanwit;— wit is then a beautiful...
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The Eclectic Review

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...morality, and religion, ten thousand times better than wit — wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature, and its effects are seen in " expanding...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 35

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1850 - 612 pages
...sense and inforniMiion ; when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise...witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better than wit ;...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 20

1850 - 604 pages
...and information, — when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle, — when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise...witty, and something much better than witty ; who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than wit, —...
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ...

Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 pages
...sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise...witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better than wit ;...
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ...

Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 pages
...sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise...witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better than wit ;...
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The Companion: After-dinner Table-talk

Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pages
...sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise it. who can be witty and something much letter than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand...
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