 ... 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
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 דפים
..." 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 plea" sant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; "judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 דפים
...consider all as equally fallacious. 23. Wit lies 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,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 206 דפים
...opinions. — Tims, Locke has described wit " as 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 definition of Locke is... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 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,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 דפים
...extremely. — Penn. WIT AND JUDGMENT. — Wit lies 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 tho fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 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,... | |
 | 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 congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - 268 דפים
...cotemporary with Dryden, defines " wit " as 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. This definition of wit he... | |
 | 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." l I would add to this definition, (rather by way of comment than of amendment,) that wit implies a... | |
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