... 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... The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - עמוד 821850תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 דפים
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. 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, therein/ to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; Judgment, on the contrary,... | |
| Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 דפים
...clearest judgment or deepest reason : for wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 דפים
...that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " 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 up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this... | |
| John Locke - 1854 - 536 דפים
...clearest judgment or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congraity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 דפים
...SECTION. 1. OF WIT. According to Locke, Wit consists " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity."i I would add to this definition, (rather by way of comment than of amendment,) that wit... | |
| John Locke - 1854 - 560 דפים
...clearest judgment or deepest reason; for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or cougruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy;* judgment, on the... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 דפים
...that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or cougruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 דפים
...SECTION. 1. OF WIT. According to Locke, Wit consists " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity."1 I would add to this definition, (rather by way of comment than of amendment,) that wit... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1856 - 422 דפים
...it consists in something that is not perfectly conformable to them."* Now this notion of wit,—that it consists in putting those ideas together with quickness...resemblance or congruity, in order to excite pleasure in the mind,—is a little too comprehensive, for it comprehends both eloquence and poetry. In the first place,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 דפים
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. 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,... | |
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