If instead of referring the Foible of a Person to any inanimate Circumstance, the Allusion had been made to any other ridiculous Person in real Life; As a conceited Fellow, perpetually recommending his own Whims, to a Quack-Doctor;—­This Foible will then be ridiculed with HUMOUR; which is likewise the original Ground:  At the same Time, from the Comparison which is made, there is apparently WIT in the Description.

So that where-ever the Foible of a Character in real Life is concern’d, there HUMOUR comes in; and wherever a sprightly unexpected Arrangement is presented of two similar, or opposite Subjects, whether animate or inanimate, there WIT is exhibited.

HUMOUR and WIT, as they may thus both be united in the same Subject, may also separately appear without the least Mixture together; that is, there may be HUMOUR without WIT, and WIT without HUMOUR.

Thus, if in order to expose the Foible of a Character, a real Person is introduc’d, abounding in this Foible, gravely persisting in it, and valuing himself upon the Merit of it, with great Self-sufficiency, and Disdain of others; this Foible is then solely ridiculed with HUMOUR.

Again, if a gay unexpected Allusion is made from one inanimate Object to another, or from one Person in real Life to another, without any Reference to their whimsical Oddities or Foibles; there WIT only appears.—­Various Instances of which, independent of HUMOUR, have been already exhibited.

A Man of WIT is
  he, who is happy in elucidating any Subject, by a just and
  unexpected Arrangement and Comparison of it with another
  Subject.

It may be also proper to describe a Man of HUMOUR, and an HUMOURIST, which are very different Persons.

A Man of HUMOUR is
  one, who can happily exhibit a weak and ridiculous Character
  in real Life, either by assuming it himself, or representing
  another in it, so naturally, that the whimsical Oddities, and
  Foibles, of that Character, shall be palpably expos’d.

Whereas an HUMOURIST
  is a Person in real Life, obstinately attached to sensible
  peculiar Oddities of his own genuine Growth, which appear in
  his Temper and Conduct.

In short, a Man of Humour is one, who can happily exhibit and expose the Oddities and Foibles of an Humourist, or of other Characters.