...He did not take the less kindly to the Scotch on account of their alleged insensibility to humour. ' It requires,' he used to say, ' a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch under' standing.' Charles Lamb stoutly maintained the same doctrine, and we fear that an attempt on...

...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...

...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,...

...saying 'There, Kate, you lucky girl, I give you all my fortune.' " 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...

...Though truly loving them, his quick sense of tho ludicrous made him derive great amusement from tho little foibles and peculiarities of the Scotch ; and...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,...

...well as master parson of my village. The people here understand this much better than in England." Though truly loving them, his quick sense of the ludicrous...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....

...propensity to ridicule the foibles and peculiarities of the Scottish people. " ' It requires,' Sydney used to say, ' a surgical operation to get a joke...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...

...propensity to ridicule the foibles and peculiarities of the Scottish people. " ' It requires,' Sydney used to say, ' a surgical operation to get a joke...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...

...We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal ; — but this was too near the truth 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...

...of unrelieved prosiness, As to wit, no one asked for it. Sydney Smith used to say that it required a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. But in England humor is native and of high account. We do not think a man the less in earnest for his...