| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...that men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the elearest judgment, or deepest reason. For Wit, lying most in the assemblage...putting those together with quickness and variety, icherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...putting those; together with quickness and varirty wherein can be found any rcsembhmce or con^ruil'j , thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable...visions, in the fancy : judgment, on the contrary, he» quite on the other side, in separating cart-fully, en? fiom another, ideas wherein can be found... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1830 - 492 pages
...thought, is that only which is taken notice of by Addison, following Locke, who defines it " to lie in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting those together,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* It may be defined more concisely, and perhaps more accurately, " A junction of things by distant and... | |
| George Combe - 1830 - 738 pages
...definition of Wit. LOCKE describes Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruityt t/iereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy *." - Essiv, b.... | |
| George Combe - Human information processing - 1830 - 732 pages
...putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congniity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy *." • Essay, b. ii. c. xi. § 2. • Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous.... | |
| Basil Montagu - Laughter - 1830 - 88 pages
...that men who have a 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 pat' ting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found the least difference or congruity,... | |
| English literature - 1831 - 536 pages
...not always the greatest judgment; for wit lying chiefly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating carefully ideas, wherein can be found a... | |
| Spectator - 1832 - 282 pages
...that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. — For wit lying most in the assemblage...those together with quickness and variety, wherein can oe found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in... | |
| Periodicals - 1834 - 392 pages
...omnes.) ». R. ». WIT. WIT, common!/ denominated a faculty of the mind, has beea defined by Locke as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. " We shall make no farther attempt at a definition of this word, but leave that to our readers, and... | |
| 1836 - 932 pages
...That men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or everal parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence...every degree produces something peculiar to it. The fo np pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on... | |
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