| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1856 - 662 pages
...be observed in one man above another. Judgment lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby...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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby...similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; wherein, for the most part, lies... | |
| Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1856 - 422 pages
...separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference,—thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein, for the most part, lies... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 pages
...0. on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating care fully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitu.4§,.andjbj affinity, to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary... | |
| Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on tlie other si if, in separating carefully one from another idea* scovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly aud by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...opposition to judgment, which he says "lies quite on the other side," in carefully separating one idea from another, wherein can be found the least difference,...misled by similitude and by affinity, to take one tiling for another, gibbison quotes this passage in the " Spectator," and says : "This is, I think,... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion; wherein, for the most part, lies... | |
| Hugh Kenner - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 404 pages
...pronounces the separation between Judgment, which consists in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, and the monkey-work of Wit, lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with... | |
| Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1987 - 568 pages
...Right from Wrong; or as Mr. Lock hath more accurately describ'd it, "The separating carefully Ideas wherein can be found the least Difference, thereby...Similitude, and by Affinity to take one Thing for another."3 Yet if we examine the Actions of Men, we shall not be apt to conclude, that Nature hath... | |
| H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, Ideas, wherein can be found the least Difference, thereby...Similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. (£ssay, „ If, p Ij6)1, 18 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, ed. Ian Campbell... | |
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