 | George Wingrove Cooke - Great Britain - 1836 - 636 pages
...was always too hard for his judgment, a severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatsoever, and he was endless in consultations ; for when after...question. When he talked to me as a philosopher of his contempt of the world, I asked him what he meant by getting so many new titles, which I called... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - Great Britain - 1848 - 606 pages
...; and if he could find a new jest to make even what he himself had suggested in counsel just before seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study...it made others call his judgment in question." When the distribution of places, changes, and promotions was making at the beginning of this reign, the... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 572 pages
...judgment. His severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever ; and he was endless in council; for, when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest, whereby he could make that which was digested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1848 - 798 pages
...and if he could find a new jest, to make what even he himself had suggested in counsel just before seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of hi> wit, though it made others call his judgment in question.' " The next character we select is that... | |
 | English essays - 1848 - 748 pages
...he could find a new jest, to make what even he himself had suggested in counsel just before веет ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of hi* wit, though it made others call his judgment in question.' " The next character we select is that... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1850 - 996 pages
...was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatsoever. And he was endless in consultations : for when after...would study to raise the credit of his wit, though it might make others call his judgment in question. When he talked to me as a philosopher of his contempt... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 534 pages
...judgment. His severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever : and he was endless in council, for when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest, whereby he could make that which was digested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would... | |
 | Charles Knight - Biography - 1867 - 532 pages
...judgment. His severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever : and he was endless in council, for when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest, whereby he could make that which was digested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would... | |
 | John Timbs - History - 1869 - 368 pages
...judgment. His severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in council, for when, after much discourse, a point was settled, if he could find a new jest whereby he could make that which was digested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 676 pages
...wit ; and we have some tolerable bon-mots of his, handed down by his contemporaries. Burnet says, " The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard...jest to make even that which was suggested by himself ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of his wit, though it made others... | |
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... and he was endless in consultations ; for when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest to make even that which was suggested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of his wit,... 
