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 91by John Locke - 1836 - 566 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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'... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 .... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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