 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
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1858 - 732 pages
...upon the uses and mlluence of true wit and humor : ' WHEN wit is combined with sense and information j when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained...and despise it, who can be witty and something much Idler than wittv, who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...to disguise or prejudice truth, is salt thrown into a man's eyes." " 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 ;... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...to disguise or prejudice truth, is salt thrown into a man's eyes." " When wit is combined with sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence;...by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a nian who can use it and despise it, who can be witty, and something much better than witty ; who loves... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...wit is combined with sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can...witty, and something much better than witty ; who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better than wit, —... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English essays - 1865 - 478 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,...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... | |
 | English literature - 1865 - 538 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, goodnature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better than wit ; — wit is then a beautiful... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 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... | |
 | Joseph Haven - Psychology - 1865 - 612 pages
...; nothing is safe but mediocrity. * * * But when wit is combined with sense and information ; where it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong...of a man who can use it and despise it, who can be wilty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality,... | |
 | Book, H. A. - 1865 - 184 pages
...LOCKE. GENUINE AND INNOCENT WIT. Where wit is combined with sense and information, when it is refined by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle; when it is in the hands of a man who can use and despise it who can be witty and something much better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency,... | |
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