 Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously...  All the Year Round - Seite 3991891Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 360 Seiten
...and jesting gives the following definition of wit : — " Wit is indeed," says this great Divine, " a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and settled notion thereof than to make a... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 Seiten
...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform. him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously approhended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 330 Seiten
...than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in sc many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemetb no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 584 Seiten
...lampoon, pasquinade, repartee, sarcasm, sneer. Wit is elaborately defined by Dr. Isaac Barrow : "It is a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 Seiten
...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemcth no less hard to settle a clear nnd certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 Seiten
...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed or limited. And consequently, as man depends absolutely...is necessary that he should, in all points, conform judgments, that it seeincth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 Seiten
...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | James McCosh - 1880 - 276 Seiten
...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 Seiten
...acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeeda thing so versatileand multiform, appearing >u so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemcth no less hard to settle a clear ami-certain notion thereof, than, to make... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 Seiten
...better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, " then " 1 can inform mm by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended oy several ' (different) eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain... | |
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