Assertion: wit | /r/CapableOf | think proper
Facets:
value: to insert a panegyric
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: I presume you were rather surprised not to see my _consequential_ name in the papers  amongst the orators of our 2nd speech day, but unfortunately some wit who had formerly been at Harrow, suppressed the merits of Long , Farrer  and myself, who were always supposed to take the Lead in Harrow eloquence, and by way of a _hoax_ thought proper to insert a panegyric on those speakers who were really and truly allowed to have rather disgraced than distinguished themselves, of course for the _wit_ of the thing, the best were left out and the worst inserted, which accounts for the _Gothic omission_ of my The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals.