...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, gives it being. Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting of what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting...and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless ravings of fancy and windings of language. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of...

...look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted...which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable...

...contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky...a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose." § 3. A large mass of Butler's miscellaneous writings has been published ; and a curious discovery...

...gesture passeth for it; sometimes au affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntncss, gives it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wrestling obvious matter to the purpose." . The above illustrations, besides showing the congrnity...

...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes...Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answer able to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner...

...look or gesture, passeth for it; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky...wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable...

...imes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntuess, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes...matter to the purpose : often it consisteth in one know? not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable,...

...sometimes an affected simplicity: sometimes a presumptuous bluntness givrth it being ; sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes...not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how." "True wit is like the brilliant stone Bug from the Indian mine; Which boasts two Yarious powers in...

...gesture passeth for it. Sometimes an affected simplicity. Sometimes a presumptuous bluntness gives it being. Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language." Following this unique description, we may say also that it twists, jerks, and tosses words into every...

...an affected simplicity ; sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it ariseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language." Sydney Smith says this is not a definition of wit, but a description. l Very true ; and the distinction...