 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pagina’s
...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless...and proveth things by), which by a pretty surprising then the man was called emphatically humorous, and the definition of humour became very nearly what... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 pagina’s
...consisteth in one hardly knows what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. Barrmo Ax EXPERT COOK. The King of Bithynia, in some expeditions against the Scythians, in the winter,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pagina’s
...consisteth in one Knows nol 14 what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless...rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in sho:1t, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as 1eason teacheth and proveth things... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1869 - 444 pagina’s
...in short, a manner of speaking out of the plain way, which, by a pretty and surprising ULCouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding somo delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special... | |
 | 1869 - 596 pagina’s
...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.' f Christianity, he says truly enough, ' is not so tetrical, so harsh, so envious,' as to bar us from... | |
 | 1871 - 780 pagina’s
...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless...simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and knoweth things by) which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit, or expression, doth affect... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pagina’s
...consisteth in one knows not what, and spnngeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable : being answerable to the numberless...teacheth and proveth things by,) which by a pretty surprizing uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pagina’s
...consisteth in one knows not what, and spnngeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless...teacheth and proveth things by,) which by a pretty surprizing uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some... | |
 | John Eglington Bailey - 1874 - 900 pagina’s
...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.' Of all the preceding varieties of wit, next to the ' play with words and phrases,' perhaps Fuller most... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 pagina’s
...consisteth of one knows not what, and springetb. up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language." Study of the UoJy Scriptures, tells us that it was a very favorite figure of rhetoric among the Hebrews,... | |
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... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable ; being answerable... 
