 | William Jackson - 1798 - 472 pages
...found " any refemblance or congruity, thereby " to make up pleafant pictures and agree" able vifions in the fancy; judgment, " on the contrary, lies quite on the other " fide, in feparating carefully one from " other ideas, wherein can be found the " leaft difference,... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...another, ideas wherein can be found the leaft difference, thtreby to avoid being milled by fimilitude, and •by affinity to take one thing for another....a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allufion, wherein for the moll part lies that entertainment and pleafantry of wit, which ftrikes fo... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 340 pages
...another, ideas wherein can be found the leaft difference, thereby to avoid being mifled by fimilitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This...a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allufion, wherein for the moft part lies that entertainment and pleafantry of wit, which ftrikes fo... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 986 pages
...be found any refemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleafant pictures, and agreeable vifions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other fide, in feparating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the leaft difference, thereby... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...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...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 quite contrary... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...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...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 - 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
...putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congniity, 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 from another, ideas wherein can be found... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...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...misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one ihing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite Contrary to metaphor and allusion ; T\ herein,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...in the, assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
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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 ; judgment, on the contrary,... 
