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... Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 591844Full view - About this book
| Robert J. Sternberg - 1990 - 366 pages
...people who have a great deal of the one do not necessarily have a great deal of the other. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancies; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, and separating carefully, one from... | |
| Ton Broos - 1990 - 420 pages
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| Ross Hutchison - 1991 - 272 pages
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| Richard H. Weisberg - 1992 - 344 pages
...of 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...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
| Jean-Luc Nancy - 1993 - 444 pages
...precisely this exclusion brings about the definition of Witz. In 1689, Locke writes: For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...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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