 If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think that Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper. It is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject than what that author has made use of in...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3351854Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...writing in general. Wit, as he defines it, is "a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject." If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper : it is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 510 pages
...in general. Wit, as he defines it, is " a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject." If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper : it is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...in general. Wit, as he defines it, is * a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject.' If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper. It is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...writing in general. Wit, as he defines it, is ' a propriety of words andthoughts adapted to the subject.' If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think that Euclid was B 3 the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper. It is certain there never was a greater propriety... | |
 | 1822 - 788 pages
...general. Wit, as he defines it, is • a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject." It on. T^he military part of his life has furnished him...adventures, in the relation of which he is very a It is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | 1823 - 450 pages
...in general. Wit, as he defines it, is ' a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject.' If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think that Euclid was cc 3 the greatest wit that ever, set pen to paper. It is certain there never was a greater propriety... | |
 | 1824
...general. — ' Wit, as he defines it, is a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject.' If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper: it is certain there, never was a greater propriety of words and 43 THE SPECTATOR. No. 62. thoughts... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 pages
...general. — ' Wit, as he defines it, is a propriety of words and thoughts adapted>to the subject.' If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper: it is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 446 pages
...in general. Wit, as he defines it, is ''-a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject." If this be a true definition of wit, I am apt to think...Euclid was the greatest wit that ever set pen to paper. It is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject, than... | |
 | 1836 - 938 pages
...writing in general. Wit, as he defines it, is ' a propriety of words and thoughts adapted to the subject" ies which he pretends for his mistress, his country, or his friends, one may see by his action, t put pen to paper. It is certain there never was a greater propriety of words and thoughts adaptea to... | |
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