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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,... "
Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ... - Page 47
by James Plumptre - 1809 - 284 pages
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Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry

David Rosen - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 224 pages
...philosophy, he reserves the higher faculty of judgment, which "lies quite on the other side, in separating one from another ideas wherein can be found the least...similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another" (II. 11.2). If the mind lacked clear impressions of different objects, Locke writes, "it would be capable...
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

William James - Psychology - 2007 - 709 pages
...thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully...misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing tor another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most...
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Renaissance Figures of Speech

Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, Katrin Ettenhuber - History - 2007 - 238 pages
....Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully Ideas one from another, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby...Similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. Locke denigrates and rejects Wit in the same terms Hoskins and Peacham had applied to its local representative,...
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The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English ...

Lee Morrissey - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 264 pages
...ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety," and that "judgment on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully,...another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference" (Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 2. 11.2. 156). 34. Milton, The Ready and Easy Way...
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Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s: Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth

Susan Manly - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 222 pages
...Visions in the Fancy ', while judgement involves 'separating carefully, one from another, Ideas, . . . thereby to avoid being misled by Similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another'.16 Edgeworth is interested throughout Practical Education in developing children's capacity...
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