 ... 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 26by Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 pages
...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy,—judgment, 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.... | |
 | 1875 - 734 pages
...of ideas, and the putting them together with quickness and variety ; 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 affinity, to take one thing for another."... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 pages
...clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying mostly in the i^ 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."... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1878 - 1082 pages
...still say, in his wits, out nf his wits, for in or out of a sound mind. Mr. Locke2 says, " Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...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.... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; jndgment, 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 liy similitnde and by affinity to take one thing for another.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1879 - 662 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."... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1880 - 684 pages
...Etym. .'•!-••/.. p. 474, 12, IKKOS <n)/id><ei rivlinrof. Curtiua, GE » PoU, Etym. F. ii. 139. lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully,...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.21... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...being not metaphysical wit but the kind of wit defined by Addison in the sixty-second Spectator: 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 misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.... | |
 | Hugh Kenner - 1987 - 404 pages
...things to a passive process. Locke himself pronounces the separation between Judgment, which consists 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,... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...papers on 'True and False Wit', whence it became a highly influential critical orthodoxy: Locke finds Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting...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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