 | 1850 - 806 pages
...powerful influence in decisions upon character, and is not overcome without considerable difficulty. . . . When wit is combined with sense and information ;...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,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1862 - 628 pages
...observation is yery dangerous. Every thing is, that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics. But when wit is combined with sense and information, when...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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is combined with sense and information ;...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...dangerous that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics; nothing is safo but mediocrity. . . . But when wit is combined with sense and information, —...hands of a man who can use it and despise it ; who can b6 witty, and something much belter than witty; who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, morality,... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is combined with sense and information ;...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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...humble poetess, whom your readers will judge not unworthy of their acquaintance. AD FIELD. WIT. ¥HEN wit is combined with sense and information ; when...and despise it, who can be witty, and something much belter than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand... | |
 | 1854 - 402 pages
...leaves DO sting, and the humor which is free from vulgarity. Of wit, Sidney Smith says : " When it is combined with sense and information ; when it is...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,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - English essays - 1855 - 428 pages
...dangerous that has efficacy and vigour for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity. . . . But when wit is combined with sense and information, —...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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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 letter than witty, who loves... 
