. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. r-t^y^-^.. There was one peculiarity about Charles iJrowne—he never madean enemy. Other wits in other tiinoH liavd been raiiious, but asatirical thrust now and then has killod u frioiid. 1 )i;^(iii(in wnw thewit of Greece, but when, .iftcr holding up \\.n old driod fiwli to drawaway the oyos of Anaxiiiionos lUKlionoo, lio oxciiiiiruid Sfo how iinold fish is moie interesting than AnaxiiiKJiios, ho said a Iliniiything, but he stabbed a friond. When Charles Lamb, in iuiHWdc tothe doting mothers quest
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. r-t^y^-^.. There was one peculiarity about Charles iJrowne—he never madean enemy. Other wits in other tiinoH liavd been raiiious, but asatirical thrust now and then has killod u frioiid. 1 )i;^(iii(in wnw thewit of Greece, but when, .iftcr holding up \\.n old driod fiwli to drawaway the oyos of Anaxiiiionos lUKlionoo, lio oxciiiiiruid Sfo how iinold fish is moie interesting than AnaxiiiKJiios, ho said a Iliniiything, but he stabbed a friond. When Charles Lamb, in iuiHWdc tothe doting mothers question as to how ho lilcod babies, Iuplied,b-b-boiled, inadam, boiled ! that luotlior loved hira no mom; andwhen John Eandolpli said thank youl to ids ooiisLlLiKiiit whokindly remarked that ho liad tho pleasure of iiis lioiiso,it was wit at the oxpoiiso of friendship. The wlioic! English sciioolof wits—with Douglas Jorrold, ITood, Sheridan, and Sidney Smith,indulged in repartee. Tlu^y were ])a,ni,sitic wits. And so with tlioIrish, except that an Irishman is generally so ridiculously ab
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