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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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Keys to Great Writing

Stephen Wilbers - 2000 - 328 pages
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The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron

Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 280 pages
...Concerning Human Understanding.^ 7 At first, this seems a distinction of great clarity and tidiness. Wit, says Locke, lies most in the assemblage of Ideas,...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 Works of John Locke

John Locke - 2001 - 360 pages
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Laurence Sterne

Marcus Walsh - 2002 - 236 pages
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The Adventures of David Simple ; And, The Adventures of David Simple, Volume ...

Sarah Fielding - 2002 - 524 pages
...on the difference between wit and judgement, 'wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and puiting those together with quickness and variety, wherein...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy: judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...
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Representations of Swift

Brian A. Connery - 2002 - 320 pages
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The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions

Margaret P. Munger - 2003 - 536 pages
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Palladio bears away the palm: zur Ă„sthetisierung palladianischer Architektur ...

Carsten Ruhl - 2003 - 324 pages
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Locke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science

Peter Walmsley - 2003 - 208 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,...
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The Eighteenth-century Novel, Volumes 1-7

2003 - 344 pages
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