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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... "
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 59
1844
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Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry

David Rosen - 2008 - 224 pages
...confronted by a confusion of ideas may bring to bear on them one of two faculties, wit or judgment. Wit lies "most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy" (Essay, 1 I. 11.2). Locke of course ascribes all works of art, of "entertainment and pleasantry," to...
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The Vocabulary of Philosophy: Mental, Mo

William Fleming - 2006 - 580 pages
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Abstraction and the Classical Ideal, 1760-1920

Charles A. Cramer - 2006 - 196 pages
...as John Locke described in his highly influential Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690): Wit l[ies| most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting...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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The Right Honorable Joseph Addison V3: His Works

Joseph Addison - 2006 - 496 pages
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Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

Willam James - 2006 - 612 pages
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The Right Honorable Joseph Addison V1: His Works

Joseph Addison - 2006 - 528 pages
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers - (1819)

William Hazlitt - 2006 - 348 pages
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Georgian Satirists

Sherard Vines - 2006 - 224 pages
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Elements Of The Philosophy Of The Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - 2006 - 504 pages
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 2006 - 424 pages
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