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" The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is eight men, not one man ; that he has as much wit as if he had no sense, and as much sense as if he had no wit ; that his conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination... "
Eclectic and Congregational Review - Page 183
1855
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 102

1855 - 620 pages
...Dr. Johnson, and almost every man who has made a distinguished figure in the House of Commons . . . The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is combined...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 12

1848 - 704 pages
...the understanding well, to risk something : to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is...
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ...

Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...the understanding well, to risk something; to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he 'were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is...
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The Companion: After-dinner Table-talk

Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...the understanding well, to risk something; to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1

American literature - 1850 - 896 pages
...uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is right men, not one man ; that he has as much wit as if he...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 35

1850 - 818 pages
...the understanding well, to risk something ; to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...as if he had no sense, and as much sense as if he haano wit : that his conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 35

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1850 - 612 pages
...the understanding well, to risk something; to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is eight men, not one man ; that he has as much wit ae if he hüd tío sense, and as much sense as if he had no wit : that his conduct is as judicious...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 35

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1850 - 570 pages
...uniting things that ore commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man i*, that he is ri"kt men, not one man ; that he has as much wit as if he had no sense, in id as much «MJt*e as if he luui no wit ; that his conduct la as Judicious us if ho were the dullest...
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Select specimens of English prose [ed.] by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...the undertaking well, to risk something ; to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is...
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Table-talk on Books, Men, and Manners

Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...the understanding well, to risk something ; to aim at uniting things that are commonly incompatible. The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is...conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined. But when wit is...
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