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,... A New Dictionary of the English Language ... - Page 442by Charles Richardson - 1856Full view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1778 - 378 pages
...can be found an/ refemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleafant pictures and agreeable vifions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other fide, in feparating carefully one from another, ideas whereincan be found the leaft difference, thereby... | |
| John Wesley - Biography - 1782 - 728 pages
...can be found any refemblanee or congruity, thereby to make pleafant piftures, and agreeable vifions in the Fancy ^ Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other fide, in i'eparating carefully, one from another, Ideas, wherein can be found the leaft difference,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...at doing him a service in this respecl. Besides, wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and in putting those together with quickness and variety,...wherein can be found any resemblance, or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; the writer, who aims at wit, must... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 556 pages
...any refcmblance or conrrruity, thereby to make up pleafant pictures, and agrceK 4 able able vifions in the fancy; judgment on the contrary, lies quite on the other fide, in feparating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the leafl difference ;... | |
| William Jackson - Aesthetics, British - 1798 - 472 pages
...found " any refemblance or congruity, thereby " to make up pleafant pictures and agree " able vifions in the fancy ; judgment, " on the contrary, lies quite on the other " fide, in feparating carefully one from " other ideas, wherein can be found the " leaft difference,... | |
| William Jackson - Aesthetics, British - 1798 - 472 pages
...found " any refemblance or congruity, thereby " to make up pleafant pictures and agree" able vifions in the fancy; judgment, " on the contrary, lies quite on the other " fide, in feparating carefully one from " other ideas, wherein can be found the " leaft difference,... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 986 pages
...be found any refemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleafant pictures, and agreeable vifions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other fide, in feparating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the leaft difference, thereby... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...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...lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...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...lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the le*st difference, thereby to avoid being misled by... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...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...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congniity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the... | |
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