 I have talked of the danger of wit : I do not mean by that to enter into commonplace declamation against faculties because they are dangerous ; — wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, every thing is dangerous...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Página 547editado por - 1850Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1893 - 286 páginas
...transported from some small Pennsylvanian town. — "Picturesque New York," Century, December, 1892. I have talked of the danger of wit. I do not mean by that...dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, everything is dangerous that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity.... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1893 - 312 páginas
...dangerous ; wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, everything is dangerous that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity. The business is, in conducting the understanding well, to risk something ; to aim at uniting things that... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 páginas
...understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times have been witty. I have talked of the danger of wit; I do not mean by that to enter into commonplace declamations against faculties because they are dangerous;—wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous,... | |
 | John Brown - 1897 - 448 páginas
...best of men. We end with his concluding words : — "I have talked of the danger of wit and humor: I do not mean by that to enter into commonplace declamation against faculties because they are dangerous. Wil is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, a talent for obser. vation is dangerous, every thing is dangerous... | |
 | John Brown - 1897 - 494 páginas
...best of men. We end with his concluding words : — ' I have talked of the danger of wit and humour : I do not mean by that to enter into commonplace declamation against faculties because they art dangerous ; — wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 466 páginas
...Dr. Johnson, and almost every man who has made a distinguished figure in the House of Commons. I have talked of the danger of wit: I do not mean by that...dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, everything is dangerous that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics; nothing is safe but mediocrity.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 462 páginas
...dangerous; — wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, everything is dangerous that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics; nothing is safe but mediocrity. The business is, in conducting the understanding well, to risk something; to aim at uniting things that... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 452 páginas
...Dr. Johnson, and almost every man who has made a distinguished figure in the House of Commons. I have talked of the danger of wit: I do not mean by that...dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, everything is dangerous that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics; nothing is safe but mediocrity.... | |
 | 1882 - 816 páginas
...entire intention of this and of the following papers we shall present to our readers. He says, " I have talked of the danger of wit ; I do not mean by that...dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, everything is dangerous that has efficacy and vigour for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but... | |
 | 1850 - 698 páginas
...perception, and plentifully sprinkled with the Attic salt. Wo extract the concluding remarks: — " I have talked of the danger of wit : I do not mean by that...dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, everything is dangerous that has efficacy and vigour for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but... | |
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