 ... 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...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Sida 821850Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 sidor
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason: for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruUy, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, H 4 and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 sidor
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason." 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 ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | 1829 - 612 sidor
...thought : this has been denned by Mr. Locke, ' to lie 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 faucy.' With ail due deference 10... | |
 | 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 found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 518 sidor
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason : 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 ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 sidor
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason.' 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; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 sidor
...Section. I. OF WIT. ACCORDING to Locke, Wit consists " in the assemblage of ideas ; " and putting those together with quickness and variety, 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
...is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness and variety, 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
...is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great philosopher,... | |
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