 | 1855 - 620 Seiten
...can be witty, and something much better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, — teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile, — extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure... | |
 | 1848 - 704 Seiten
...can be witty, and something much better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness ; teaching age, and care, and pain to smile ; extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 Seiten
...honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better thanwit;— wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our...unfreezing coldness,—teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile, — extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy, and charming even the pangs of grief.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 Seiten
...can use it and despise it, who can be witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion,...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, — teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile, — extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 Seiten
...can use it and despise it, who can be witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion,...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, — teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile, — extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure... | |
 | 1850 - 818 Seiten
...can be witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile ; extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 Seiten
...can be witty and something much letter than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile, extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy,... | |
 | 1850 - 896 Seiten
...can be witty and something much better than witty, who loves honor, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness — teaching age, and care, and pain to smile — extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 Seiten
...can be witty and something much better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion, ten thousand times better...it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, — teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile, — extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1850 - 570 Seiten
...thousand times better than wit ; wit is thru a boautiful and delightful part of our nature, There i« no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects...It expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile ; extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from... | |
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There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters of men, than to observe it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness — teaching age, and care, and pain, to smile — extorting reluctant... 
