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Excerpt from Bon-Mots of the Eighteenth Century
The plan pursued in earlier volumes of this series, of giving contemporarydescriptions of the wits - of attempting to show them in their habit as they lived, cannot be followed here, where in place of two, some hundred and fifty wits are represented. I have, therefore, thought it would not be uninteresting, instead of show ing what those who lived in the' eighteenth century had to say of their men of wit, to give some indications of their philosophical ¿ounder ings after a definition of wit itself. As Addison. Said, it is but little understood,' - yet_ every person of average intelligence knows what is wit, though he knows not what wit is.
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