...together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make np ften gi-ows in one country, and the sauce in another. The fruits be_ "found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and bv affinity to take...

...of ideas wherein any resemblance can be found," he proceeds thus: "Judgment, on the contrary, Iie3 quite on the other side, in separating carefully,...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.'''] Lord Bacon says, that "the chief and (as it were)...

...the characteristics respectively of wit and judgment. " Wit lying most on 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."* P. 20. The Strange JVames, Sfc. Nothing can be more...

...definition of Wit. Locke describes Wit as "lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his...

...reflect on and observe in itself," that it lies " most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy," and says, " it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it by the severe rules of truth and good...

...putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions...another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereb) to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.' Let us...

...reason. ' For Tit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness «nd nobleness of the soul, as that its felicit and bv affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor...

...This leads me to a definition of wit. Locke describes it as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his...

...have found a correct exemplification of it ' Wit,' says Locke, ' lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.' Locke was manifestly aware that this did not wholly define wit ; for he says it lies most (not altogether)...

...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...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude. and by affinity to take one thing for another." (Essay, vol. i, p. 143.) This definition, such as it...