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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,... "
The French Anas ... - Page 26
by Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...great deal 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...from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another....
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...great deal 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...from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another....
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]; with notes, and a general index

Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...ileasatit pictures, and agreeable visions in the ancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on he other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least diference, tJiereby to avoid bring misled by similiude, and by affinity to take one thing for another....
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A syllabus of Locke's Essay on the human understanding

1812 - 84 pages
...thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. Judgment on the contrary lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another....
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1813 - 518 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...from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference ; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another....
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The Freethinking Christians' Magazine: Intended for the Promotion ..., Volume 4

1814 - 632 pages
...not always the clearest judgments, or deepest reason ; for wit lying most in the assemblage of idea?, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing foranother....
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruUy, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, H 4 and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on...from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another....
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i ..., Volume 1

John Locke - 1817 - 556 pages
...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agree.. able visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,...from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference ; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another....
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The Works of President Edwards, Volume 8

Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 616 pages
...judgment, and clearness of reason, which is to be observed in one man above another. Judgment lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by* similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another."...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 pages
...clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another."...
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