 | 1838 - 908 pages
...there is the least difference," I accurately compare them, and so form a judgment " not likely to be misled by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another." I think it clear that the use of Comparison is to " detect incongruity where congruity appears," and... | |
 | Phrenology - 1838 - 478 pages
...there is the least difference," I accurately compare them, and so form a judgment " not likely to be misled by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another." I think it clear that the use of Comparison is to " detect incongruity where congruity appears," and... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 812 pages
...congruity, to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully,...another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereb) to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.' Let us... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, flearg. iii. The echoing Mils and cbiding hound»...nothing so much shows the nobleness of the soul, as tha bv affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1842 - 524 pages
...wherein any resemblance or congruity can be found," he proceeds thus : " Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas whßrein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1844 - 676 pages
...judgment, and, clearness of reason, which is to be observed in one man above another. Judgment lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another." So Dr. Turnbull in his Principles of Moral Philosophy, Part I. chap. 3, p. 94 : " Judgment is rightly... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 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. Qf Human Understanding, bnol: ii. ch. xi. see. 2. Now the greater uncertainty there is, as to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1845 - 246 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...from another ideas wherein can be found the least diiference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another."... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1849 - 588 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...thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affmity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 600 pages
...agreeable visions in the fancy. This definition of wit he places in opposition to judgment, which he says ' lies quite on the other side,' in separating carefully...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. Addison quotes this passage in the Spectator, and says : ' This is, I think, the best and most philosophical... | |
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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,... 
