 | 1855 - 534 sayfa
...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... | |
 | 1861 - 1148 sayfa
...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,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 sayfa
..." 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, that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally In the North, and which, under the name of WCT, is... | |
 | 1855 - 534 sayfa
...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...only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in tin' North, and which, under the name of WIT, is... | |
 | Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland - 1855 - 390 sayfa
...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...only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of "WUT, is... | |
 | lady Saba Holland - 1855 - 482 sayfa
...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...only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of WUT, is... | |
 | 1855 - 554 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1855 - 554 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 sayfa
...Scotch. In treating of them he said : — " It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into the Scotch understanding. Their only Idea of wit, or rather, that Inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of WUT, is... | |
 | 1855 - 498 sayfa
...to be admitted." " It requires," he used to say, " a surgical operation to get a joke well into the Scotch understanding. Their only idea of wit, or rather, that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which under the name of WUT, is... | |
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It requires," he used to say, " a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. Their only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of... 
