 | Sydney Smith - 1889 - 470 oldal
...expect that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. MANIFOLD MEN. — 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. WIT THE FLAVOR OF... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 oldal
...superior understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times have been witty. 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... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1893 - 286 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... | |
 | Christian Brothers - 1893 - 460 oldal
...and statesmen of all times have >een witty. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is iglit men, not one man; that he has as much wit as if le had no sense, and as much sense as if he had no sit; that his conduct is as judicious as if he were... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 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... | |
 | John Brown - 1897 - 448 oldal
...the understand ing well, to risk something; to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...that he has as much wit as if he had no sense, and aa much sense as if he had no wit ; that his conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1900 - 274 oldal
...superior understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times have been witty. 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 466 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1902 - 804 oldal
...arrangement adopted presents the different aspects of the great character of Webster. Sydney Smith said that "the meaning of an extraordinary man is that he is...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of men, and his imagination as brilliant as though he were irretrievably ruined." It is to illustrate... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 452 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... 
