... 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,... The Spectator, no. 1-314 - Page 103by Joseph Addison - 1837Full view - About this book
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason." For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity VOL. VII. B 2 SPECTATOR. NO 6!?. to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason." For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the le*st difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity VoL. VII. B <• •... | |
| 1803 - 454 pages
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| 1803 - 420 pages
...rffeke up pleasant pictures and agreeable vi< sions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies 1 quite on the other side, in separating carefully one...least ' difference, thereby to avoid being misled by siniili' tude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. ' This is a way of proceeding quite contrary... | |
| 1803 - 434 pages
...thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lie$ quite on the other side, in separating carefully one...least ' difference, thereby to avoid being misled by simili4 tude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. ' This is away of proceeding quite contrary... | |
| 1804 - 676 pages
...not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one ihing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite Contrary to metaphor... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...of wit, in short, that can any where be met with. "Wit," says he, "lies in the, assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
| John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...difference ; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, .and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is away of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor... | |
| Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 418 pages
...marks the distinguished faculties of wit and judgment j " Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...from another, ideas wherein can be found the least diflcrence; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, &c." LOcKE, cliap. xi. on Discerning. SINGLE... | |
| John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...resemblance or congruity, (hereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agree.!/• /. ment. K 4 abl« able visions in the fancy; judgment on the contrary, lies...difference ; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one tiling for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor... | |
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