...ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resembla.net or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his...

...faculties as the characteristics respectively of wit and judgment. " Wit lying most on the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...

...reflect on and observe in itself," that it lies " most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy," and says, " it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it by the severe rules of truth and good reason,...

...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...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his...

...extinguished ? This leads me to a definition of wit. Locke describes it as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his...

...reason. ' For Tit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness «nd nobleness of the soul, as that its felicit judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,...

...Mathematics must be the wittiest book in the world. Locke says, the word signifies " an assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance and congruity ; thereby to make a pleasant picture, and agreeable vision to the fancy." Pope says,...

...extinguished ? This leads me to a definition of wit. Locke describes it as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or cmgruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* Now, it may be...

...preceding Section. I. Of Wit. According to Locke, Wit consists, "in the assemblage of ideas ; and pulling those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity." (Essay on Human Understanding, book ii. chap. 11.) I would add to this definition, (rather by way of...

...least have found a correct exemplification of it ' Wit,' says Locke, ' lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.' Locke was manifestly aware that this did not wholly define wit ; for he says it lies most (not altogether)...