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1 1, II | immediate times; and lastly, the wit of one man can no more countervail 2 1, IV | and infinite agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious 3 1, IV | in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work 4 1, IV | and unwearied travail of wit had joined variety and universality 5 1, IV | have been spent about the wit of some one, whom many times 6 1, V | meditation and agitation of wit do urge and, as it were, 7 1, V | enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most 8 1, VII | to the agility of their wit to ward or avoid them.~( 9 1, VII | had the patient and subtle wit of a schoolman, insomuch 10 1, VII | aspire as well to victory of wit as victory of war: undertaking 11 1, VIII | how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable 12 2, II | to fill up out of his own wit and conjecture.~(6) For 13 2, IV | philosophers’ works; and for wit and eloquence, not much 14 2, VII | ideas, as one that had a wit of elevation situate as 15 2, VIII | cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. 16 2, VIII | intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen 17 2, VIII | a doubt. But that use of wit and knowledge is to be allowed, 18 2, XIX | thereunto; for in them, if the wit be caught away but a moment, 19 2, XX | much glory of eloquence, wit, and learning in the expressing 20 2, XXI | men have rather sought by wit to deride and traduce much 21 2, XXII | that many have strength of wit and courage, but have neither 22 2, XXIII| and steel of men’s minds, wit, courage, audacity, resolution, 23 2, XXIII| and steel of men’s minds, wit, courage, audacity, resolution, 24 2, XXV | it familiarly in games of wit, as chess, or the like.