 | 1855 - Počet stránok 534
...apprehended as readily as he ever afterwards found it to be ; but it was one of his sayings, that it required a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. He had already chosen hia side in politics, as we gather from his being attracted to Horner by a warning... | |
 | Francis Horner - 1843 - Počet stránok 570
...vigorous reasoning, in pursuit of important and difficult truth. He had no wit; nor did he condescend to that inferior variety of this electric talent which...under the name of Wut, is so infinitely distressing to persons of good taste: he had no very ardent and poetical imagination, but he had that innate force,... | |
 | 1861 - Počet stránok 1148
...changed. Dean Ramsay endeavors to defend his countrymen from the sarcastic fling of Sidney Smith, that " it requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding." We still think, though there are of course brilliant exceptions among the literary celebrities of Scotland,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1845 - Počet stránok 496
...vigorous reasoning, in pursuit of important and difficult truth. He had no wit; nor did he condescend to that inferior variety of this electric talent which...under the name of Wut, is so infinitely distressing to persons of good taste: he had no very ardent and poetical imagination, but he had that innate force,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - Počet stránok 936
..." THE SCOTCH. "4It requires,1 Sydney used to say, 'a surgical operation to get a joke well into the Scotch understanding. Their only idea of wit, or rather,...occasionally In the North, and which, under the name of WCT, is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.... | |
 | 1898 - Počet stránok 664
...stand a great deal of good-natured chaff about Sydney Smith's time- honoured (time-worn?) saying that "it requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotchman's understanding." Your correspondent with the perverted form of the good Scotch name Robertson... | |
 | 1855 - Počet stránok 534
...laugh by his descriptions of things which struck his English eye. " It requires," he used to say, " a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch...this electric talent which prevails occasionally in tin' North, and which, under the name of WIT, is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste,... | |
 | Francis Horner - 1853 - Počet stránok 838
...vigorous reasoning, in pursuit of important and difficult truth. He had no wit ; nor did he condescend to that inferior variety of this electric talent which...under the name of Wut, is so infinitely distressing to persons of good taste : he had no very ardent and poetical imagination, but he had that innate force,... | |
 | lady Saba Holland - 1855 - Počet stránok 542
...laugh by his descriptions of things which struck his English eye. " It requires," he used to say, " a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch...occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of WOT, is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.... | |
 | 1855 - Počet stránok 554
...ridicule the foibles and peculiarities of the Scottish people. " ' It requires,' Sydney used to say, ' a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. Their only idea of wit, or * Preface, voL ii. p. 12. rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally... | |
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It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. 
