 | James McCosh - Conscience - 1887 - 292 pages
...English language : " First it may be demanded what the thing we speak of is, or what this facetiousness doth import. To which question I might reply as Democritus did to him who asked the definition of a man. 'T is that which we all see and know ; any one better apprehends... | |
 | James McCosh - Psychology - 1887 - 290 pages
...English language: "First it may be demanded what the thing we speak of is, or what this facetiousness doth import. To which question I might reply as Democritus did to him who asked the definition of a man. 'T is that which we all see and know; any one better apprehends... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 544 pages
...of 1s ? Or what this facetiousness (or wit, as he calls it before,) doth import ? To which questions I might reply, as Democritus did to him that asked...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, that I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1888 - 490 pages
...demanded what the thing we speak of is, or •what this facetiousness doth import 1 To which question 1 might reply as Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man, It is that which we all see and know : any one better apprehends \vhat it is by acquaintance than I... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1889 - 586 pages
...says : — "But first it may be demanded, what the thing we speak of is, or what this faeetiousness doth import ; to which question I might reply, as...definition of a man — 'tis that which we all see mid know; and one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1889 - 364 pages
...He says,—"But first it maybe demanded, what the thing we speak of is, or what this facetiousness doth import; to which question I might reply, as 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 460 pages
...speak of is? Or what this facetlousness (or wit, as he calls it before) doth Import? To which questions I might reply, as Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man, ' 'Tis that which VOL. IV. 10 the desire of augmenting them grows stronger m proportion to the advance in acquisition... | |
 | Joseph Baldwin - Educational psychology - 1889 - 350 pages
...or what this facetiousness doth impart. To which question I might reply as Democritus did to him who asked the definition of a man. "Tis that which we all see and know ; any one better apprehen^ what it is by acquaintance than I can infer him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 540 pages
...of is ? Or what this facetiousness (or wit, as he calls it before) doth import ? To which questions I might reply, as Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man, ' "Pis that which we all see and know.' Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...isî Or what this facetiousness (or -wit, as he calls it before) doth import Ï To which questions I might reply, as Democritus did to him that asked...apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform mm by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes,... | |
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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... 
