 | Idler - English literature - 1856 - 386 pages
...impossible to consider as very amiable, very respectable, or very safe. * . * * But when wit," he adds, " is combined with sense and information ; when it is...when it is in the hands of a man who can use it, and despises it, who loves honour, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times... | |
 | 1856 - 332 pages
...the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant us if he were irretrievably ruined. But when 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 use and despise it; who can be witty and something... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Authors, English - 1856 - 502 pages
...the Harvard College Fund 2993-2994 The Harvard College Library , 1 I WIT AND WISDOM OF SYDNEY SMITH. WHEN WIT IS COMBINED WITH SENSE AND INFORMATION; WHEN IT IS SOFTENED BY BENEVOLENCE AND EE8TRAINED BY STRONG PRINCIPLE J WHEN IT IS IN THE II \ M,s OF A MAN WHO CAN USE IT AND DESPISE IT,... | |
 | Education - 1857 - 1266 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 ;...when it is softened by benevolence and restrained by principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use and despise it ; who can be witty and something... | |
 | 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 - 444 pages
...hungry man down to. Wit, employed to disguise or prejudice truth, is salt thrown into a man's eyes." " When wit is combined with sense and information ;...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
...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 ;...when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise it, who can be witty, and something... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English essays - 1865 - 478 pages
...g^f®g»^^ SS^sS^^s^ SoK-S^- •"•£,*•-^ 1^^ ..JJI». . ; WfT AND WISDOM OF SYDNEY SMITH. WHEN WI1 IS COMBINED WITH SENSE AND INFORMATION; WHEN IT IS SOFTENED BY BENEVOLENCE AND RESTRAINED BV STRONG PRINCIPLE; WHEN IT 18 IN THE HANDS OF A MAN W1IO CAN F8E IT AND DESI'ISE IT, WHO CAN BE WITTT... | |
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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... 
