...definition of Wit. Locke describes Wit as "lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his...

...humour, jarte Sdjíufifotgcn auê ber .Knintnip béé (5barattcr¿. Laboured or forced wit is no wit. Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas , and putting those together with quickness and variety. (Addison.) Scott's humour in conversation, as in his works, was genial, and free from all causticity....

...deep thinker, and elicits truth* which are in vain suught for with any severe effort: ' Wit lie« more in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety.'— ADDIS о я. Humour is a •pecies of wit which flowa oat of the humour of а peñón; For «ire by...

...wit is actually extinguished ? This leads me to a definition of wit. Locke describes it as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his...

...Elements of Mathematics must be the wittiest book in the world. Locke says, the word signifies " an assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance and congruity; thereby to make a pleasant picture, and agreeable vision to the fancy." Pope says, it...

...wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason. ' For Tit lying HOSE who have searched into human nature observe, that nothing so much sho «nd variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures,...

...wit is actually extinguished ? This leads me to a definition of wit. Locke describes it as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or cmgruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* Now, it may be...

...preceding Section. I. Of Wit. According to Locke, Wit consists, "in the assemblage of ideas ; and pulling those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity." (Essay on Human Understanding, book ii. chap. 11.) I would add to this definition, (rather by way of...

...the body, or between judgment and memory. Id. Ib. vol.'iii. p. 251. OftheCurcnftheCuui. 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 ideas one from another,...

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