 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
 | John Locke - 1828 - 392 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 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... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 602 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 putting those together with quickness and Tariety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 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...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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...have hit on it, it was that I might see him in the same coach with the duke of Bruyere. XCIIL Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...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... | |
 | Ernst Reinhold - 1829 - 612 pages
...S)ing für baé anbere nehmen 2). 3«r i) the discerning faculty. 1. с. chap. XI. a) 1. с. §. Z. Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas* and putting...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side , in separating carefully , one from another,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 810 pages
...of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit, lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary lies quite... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...Illustrations of the Doctrine slated in the preceding Section. I. OP WIT. ACCORDING to Docke, Wit consists " in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting those together...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity." * I would add to this definition, (rather by way of comment than of amendment,) that wit implies a... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...have hit on it, it was that I might see him in the same coach with the duke of Bruyere. xcm. Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congrulty thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 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...putting those together with quickness and variety, ichtrein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable... | |
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