 | 1855 - 620 oldal
...Dr. Johnson, and almost every man who has made a distinguished figure in the House of Commons . . . The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...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,... | |
 | 1850 - 806 oldal
...powerful influence in decisions upon character, and is not overcome without considerable difficulty. . . . 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 desptse it ; who can be witty,... | |
 | 1848 - 704 oldal
...the understanding well, to risk something : to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...-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,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 oldal
...the understanding well, to risk something; to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 oldal
...the understanding well, to risk something; to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...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... | |
 | 1850 - 896 oldal
...uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is right men, not one man ; that he has as much wit as if he...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 oldal
...dangerous that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics; nothing is safo but mediocrity. . . . uncontrolled master of one short hour, he has only...consult his caprice as to whether it shall be spent in strong principle, — when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise it ; who can b6 witty,... | |
 | 1850 - 604 oldal
...dangerous that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity. . . . 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,... | |
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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 better than witty, who... 
