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" 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 - Page 547
edited by - 1850
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 12

1848 - 704 pages
...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 vigour for its characteristics : nothing is safe but...
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ...

Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pages
...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...common-place declamation against faculties because they are dangerous;—wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, every...
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ...

Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 pages
...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...characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity. The business is, in conducting the understanding well, to risk something ; to aim at uniting things that...
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ...

Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 pages
...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...characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity. The business is, in conducting the understanding well, to risk something ; to aim at uniting things that...
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ...

Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 pages
...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, every thing is dangerous that has efficacy and vigour for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity. The business is, in conducting the...
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the edinburgh review, of critical journal

charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. ... I have talked of the danger of wit: I do not mean by that...dangerous, every thing is dangerous that has efficacy and rigour for its characteristics; nothing is safe but mediocrity. . . . But when wit is combined with...
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The Companion: After-dinner Table-talk

Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pages
...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, every thing is dangerous that has efficacy and vigour for its characteristics; nothing is safe but mediocrity. The business is, in conducting the...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 20

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. . . I have talked of the danger of wit; I do not mean by that...dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, every tiling is dangerous that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics; nothing is safo but mediocrity....
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 20

1850 - 604 pages
...and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. . . . I have talked of the danger of wit ; I do not mean by that to enter into common- place declamation against faculties because they are dangerous. Wit is dangerous, eloquence...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1

1850 - 896 pages
...declamation against faculties because they air dangerous ; wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, n talent for observation is dangerous, every thing is dangerous that has efficacy and viijor for its characteristics: nothing is safe but mediocrity. The business is, in conducting the...
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