 | 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...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is combined... | |
 | 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...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is... | |
 | 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...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he 'were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is... | |
 | 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...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is... | |
 | 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...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is... | |
 | 1850 - 818 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...as if he had no sense, and as much sense as if he haano wit : that his conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 oldal
...the undertaking well, to risk something ; to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 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...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is... | |
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The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is eight men, not one man ; that he has as much wit as if he had no sense, and as much sense as if he had no wit ; that his conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination... 
