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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; judgment, on the contrary,... "
Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt - Page 161
by William Hazlitt - 1836
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The British Essayists: Spectator

1823 - 406 pages
...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on- the other side, in...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. * Dressed she is beautiful, undressed she is Beauty's self. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 2

1824 - 284 pages
...those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions...similitude: and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion; wherein, for the most part, lies...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. analysis ...

John Locke - 1824 - 552 pages
...those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies...
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The Spectator, Volume 1

Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 pages
...those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions...similitude: and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion; wherein, for the most part, lies...
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The Study of Medicine, Volume 4

John Mason Good - 1825 - 700 pages
...resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgement, on the contrary lies quite on the other side, in separating...from another, ideas wherein can be found the least differ* PhysiognomonicaJ System, &r. p. 144. 8vo. 1816. GIN. I. Sntc. I. £cphronifu Melancholia. Melancholy....
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The Cornish Magazine, Issue 25

1826 - 696 pages
...those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions...separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein .can he found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take...
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The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 4

1827 - 674 pages
...resemblance or congruily, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude." If then it be true, that, after all, the phrenological faculty of Wit has just nothing at all to do...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Author's Last Additions ...

John Locke - 1828 - 602 pages
...those together with quickness and Tariety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions,...similitude, and, by affinity, to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein, for the most part, lies...
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A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian ...

Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 pages
...those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein, for the most part, lies...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First ..., Volume 1

John Locke - 1828 - 390 pages
...those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies...
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