 | 1826 - 696 pages
...well, and all here related is only too true. Pcnzancc, July 1826. IIAKLEY. LACONICS. WIT lies 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,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 pages
...deep thinker, and elicits truths which are in vain sought for with any severe effort ; ' Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety.' ADDISON. Humour is a species of wit which flows out of the humour of a person ; For sure by wit is... | |
 | 1827 - 674 pages
...function as that which the Phrenologist ascribes to his faculty of Wit. He represents Wit " as lying in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruily, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 392 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 390 pages
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1828 - 394 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 602 pages
...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 with quickness and Tariety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...on it, it was that I might see him in the same coach with the duke of Bruyere. XCIIL Wit lies 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,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
