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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 the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 1

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 532 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," Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,...
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A syllabus of Locke's Essay on the human understanding

1812 - 84 pages
...ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable...visions in the fancy. Judgment on the contrary lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby...
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The Freethinking Christians' Magazine: Intended for the Promotion ..., Volume 4

1814 - 632 pages
...the putting ideas together wherein can be found any resemblance ; judgment, on the contrary, consists in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference." The question is not here whether these are correct definitions, but whether this forms an actual distinction...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruUy, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, H 4 and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on...thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite coi>trary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with sketches of the lives of the ...

Spectator The - 1816 - 348 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...on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separat. * How heautiful sheflooks when drest! But view her freed from this disguise, Stript of th'...
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The Works of President Edwards, Volume 8

Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 616 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 Philosopby, part i. chap. 3. p. 94. " Judgment is rightly...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 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. ip 143.) This definition, such as it is, Mr. Locke took without acknowledgment from ....
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 11

1829 - 632 pages
...just the contrary of judgment, which consists in the separating carefully from one another, of such ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby...and, by affinity, to take one thing for another:" and hence, he accounts for the reason of that common observation, that men who have much wit and prompt...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1819 - 518 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...the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on ttye other side, in separating carefully, one from anather, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 36

British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity,. thereby to make up pleasant pictures,...visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite1 on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the...
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