 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...  Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith - Page 230by Sydney Smith - 1856 - 458 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...character, and is not overcome without considerable difficulty. . . . When wit is combined with sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence,...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,... | |
 | 1848 - 704 pages
...his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is combined with sense and information ; -when it is softened by benevolence,...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1862 - 628 pages
...thing is, that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics. But when wit is combined with sense and information, when it is softened by benevolence...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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...his imagination as brilliant as if he 'were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is combined with sense and information; when it is softened by benevolence,...better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better thanwit;— wit is then a beautiful... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 474 pages
...his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is combined with sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence,...better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better than wit; — wit is then a beautiful... | |
 | 1850 - 818 pages
...his imagination as brilliant as if ho were irretrievably ruined. But when wit ¡a combined with sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence,...witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better than wit ;... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 428 pages
...his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is combined with sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence,...witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better than wit ;... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is combined with sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence,...witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better than wit ;... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity. . . . But when wit is combined with sense and information, — when it is softened by benevolence,...witty, and something much better than witty ; who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than wit, —... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 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...morality, and religion ten thousand times better than wit,—wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature.' (P. 151.) Our author dismisses '... | |
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