 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1919 - 342 pages
...the Earl of Chesterfield.] And he was endless in consultations: for when after much discourse alpoint was settled, if he could find a new jest, to make...credit of his wit, though it made others call his judgement in question. [The Bishop does not tell us, what we know from the Marquis's son, that he was... | |
 | Joseph Smith Fletcher - Yorkshire (England) - 1921 - 264 pages
...severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatsoever. And he was endless in consultations [and] would study to raise the credit of his wit, though it made others call his judgment in question. . . . His heart was much set on raising his family. In another passage Burnet says : — His spirit... | |
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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,... 
