 | charles black - 1850 - 630 Seiten
...mind of any man : it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 Seiten
...mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought ; he must put himself in the place of another, and of many others. The pains . . I have talked of the danger of wit; I do not mean by that to enter into common-place declamation... | |
 | 1850 - 604 Seiten
...mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong 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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 Seiten
...mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many othei talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile...Descartes, and Lord Bacon were witty men ; so were Cicero, Shakespeare, Demosthenes, Boileau, Pope, Dryden, Fontenelle, Jonson, Waller, Cowley, Solon, Socrates,... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 Seiten
...mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied with many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile...Aristotle, Descartes, and Lord Bacon, were witty men ; so was Cicero, Shakspeare, Demosthenes, Boileau, Pope, Dryden, Fontenelle, Jonson, Waller, Cowley, Solon,... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 Seiten
...mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile...orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty. Cajsar, Alexander, Aristotle, Descartes, and Lord Bacon, were witty men ; so were Cicero, Shakspeare,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1855 - 400 Seiten
...mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile...orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty. Csesar, Alexander, Aristotle, Descartes, and Lord Bacon, were witty men ; so were Cicero, Shakspeare,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1855 - 428 Seiten
...mind of any man : it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. . . . I have talked of the danger of wit : I do not mean by that to enter into commonplace declamation... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 Seiten
...mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile...Descartes, and Lord Bacon, were witty men ; so were Cicero, Shakespeare, Demosthenes, Boileau, Pope, Dryden, Fontenelle, Jonson, Waller, Cowley, Solon, Socrates,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 482 Seiten
...mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile...orators, and statesmen of all times have been witty. Ca?sar, Alexander, Aristotle, Descartes, and Lord Bacon, were witty men ; so were Cicero, Shakespeare,... | |
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... and we are not to expect that the majority will 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 mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by... 
