 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 oldal
...Socrates, 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 oldal
...Socrates, 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 494 oldal
...Socrates, 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 eight men, not one man ; that he hns as much wit as if he had no sense, and as much sense as if he had no wit; that his conduct is as... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 oldal
...the understanding well, to risk something ; te 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
 | 1865 - 538 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... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 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 - 1865 - 478 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... | |
 | 1865 - 540 oldal
...extraordinary man is, that he is ./';,•.•'•,•'. men, not ono man ; that he bos as much wit as if he bad no sense, and as much sense as if he had no wit ; that his conduct is as judicious as if he ivere the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as . brilliant as if he were irretrievably rained.... | |
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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... 
