 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 sidor
...clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
 | 1829 - 632 sidor
...Locke, "is a faculty of the mind, consisting in the assembling and putting together of those ideas with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity; by which to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions, in the fancy. ' "This faculty," the same... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 516 sidor
...putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruitya thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite oii the other side, in separating carefully, one from anather,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 382 sidor
...Illustrations of the Doctrine stated in the preceding Section. 1OF WIT. JL ACCORDING to Locke, Wit consists " in the assemblage of ideas ; " and putting those together...wherein " can be found any resemblance or congruity."* I would add to this definition, (rather by way of explanation than amendment,) that Wit implies a power... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 sidor
...Nature to advantage dress'd ; #c.] This definition is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together,...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great philosopher,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 sidor
...to advantage dress'd ; <$-c.] This definition is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together,...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great philosopher,... | |
 | 1822 - 788 sidor
...memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason." For wit lying most in the as! semblage 肀 t "f 1822 9Published by Hickman and Hazzard. Willi anyi resemblance or congruity, ' thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in tho... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 388 sidor
...wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason: for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 sidor
...wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. But wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from, another,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1823 - 418 sidor
...thought, is that only which is taken notice of by Addison, following Locke, who defines it " to lie in the assemblage of ideas ; and " putting those together,...thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable vi" sions in the fancy."* It may be defined more concisely, and perhaps more accurately, " A junction... | |
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For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy... 
