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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.... "
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 91
by John Locke - 1836 - 566 pages
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The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the ..., Volume 3

Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - 676 pages
...judgment, and, clearness of reason, which is to be observed in one man above another. Judgment lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another." So Dr. Turnbull in his Principles of Moral Philosophy, Part I. chap. 3, p. 94 : " Judgment is rightly...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 1-2

1844 - 878 pages
...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.' Locke was manifestly aware that this did not wholly define wit ; for he says it lies most (not altogether)...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pages
...ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and...similitude. and by affinity to take one thing for another." (Essay, vol. i, p. 143.) This definition, such as it is, Mr. Locke took without acknowledgment from...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 246 pages
...ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and...from another ideas wherein can be found the least diiference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another."...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ..., Volume 21

Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and...lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully ideas one from another, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by...
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Dolman's magazine [ed. by M.G. Keon and E. Price]., Volume 2

Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 532 pages
...and the putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found an assemblance and congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Here, however, the interpretation, though nearer the truth than the preceding one, is very erroneous...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...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." (Human Understanding, book ii., chap, x.) But the necessity of fetching congruity out of incongruity...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pages
...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." (Human Understanding, book ii. chap, x.) But the necessity of fetching congruity out of incongruity...
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The Fine arts' journal

1847 - 488 pages
...ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any semblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy. But the necessity of fetching congruity out of incongruity itself, is here scarce hinted at, perhaps...
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L'oeuvre de James Beattie: tradition et perspectives nouvelles, Volume 2

Pierre Morère - 1980 - 548 pages
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