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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 Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History ... - Page 66
edited by - 1836
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make np pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy;...on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be_ "found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude,...
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Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With a Notice of His Life by ...

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pages
...most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary lieз quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found...
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Literary remains of the late William Hazlitt. With a notice of his life, by ...

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...yet he is well assured that part contributes as much to to make up pleasant pictures and agreeab'e visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary lies...on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...in the assemblage of ideas, r and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...the other side, in separating «carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby •' " to avoid being misled by similitude,...
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The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover ...

Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 pages
...lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness uf ideas,...
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A System of Phrenology

George Combe - 1837 - 740 pages
...ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resembla.net or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his...
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Conversations on the elements of metaphysics, tr. by R. Pennell

Claude Buffier - 1838 - 224 pages
...on the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, Ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude,...
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The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volume 11

1838 - 478 pages
...most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy," and says, " it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it by the severe rules of truth and good...
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A System of Phrenology

George Combe - 1838 - 736 pages
...most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his...
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The Works of Joseph Addison, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness «nd variety, wherein can be G another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude,...
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