 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...incompleteness. " It may be demanded," says he, " what the thing we speak of is, and what this facetiousness doth import; to which question I might reply, as Democritus...definition of a man — 'tis that which we all see and know : and one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...incompleteness. " It may be demanded," says he, " what the thing we speak of is, and what this facetiousness doth import; to which question I might reply, as Democritus...definition of a man— 'tis that which we all see and know; and one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is indeed... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...speak of is, and what this facetiousness doth import ; to which question I might reply, as Democritns did to him that asked the definition of a man — tis that which we all see and know; and one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is indeed... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 592 pages
...of is ? Or what this facctiousness (or toil, as he calls it before) doth import! To which questions I might reply, as Democritus did to him that asked the definition bf a man, • 'Tis that which we all see and know.' Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 316 pages
...•peak of is? Or what this faeetiousness (or wit, as he calls it before) doth import? To which questions I might reply, as Democritus did to him that asked...definition of a man, ' Tis that which we all see and know.' Anyone better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed,... | |
 | Edward Gordon - 1072 pages
...demanded, what the thing we speak of, is? or what this facetiousness or wit doth import? To which questions I might reply as Democritus did to him that asked...which we all see and know.' Any one better apprehends by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...WHAT IS WIT ? To the question what the thing we speak of is, or what this facetiousness dotli import? I might reply as Democritus did to him that asked...of a Man, 'Tis that which we all see and know : any ono better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1854 - 284 pages
...incompleteness. : " It may be demanded," says he, " what the thing we speak of is, and what this facetiousness doth import; to which question I might reply, as Democritus...him that asked the definition of a man — 'tis that tvhich we all see and know : and one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...§1But first it may be demanded, what the thing we speak of is, or what this facetiousness [EUTRAPELIA] doth import ? To which question I might reply, as...Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man, It is tltat which we all see and know: any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...§1But first it may be demanded, what the thing we speak of is, or what this facetiousness [EUTRAPELIA] doth import ? To which question I might reply, as...Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man, 1i is ihat which we all see and know: any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I... | |
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Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man — 'tis that 'which we all see and know ; and 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... 
