 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...  The Spectator - Pagina 1031853 - 742 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pagina’s
...Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find. That gives us back the image of our mind, 300 NOTES. " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together,...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great Philosopher,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1825 - 700 pagina’s
...observation, that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgement or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgement, on the contrary lies quite on the... | |
 | 1825 - 486 pagina’s
...first in order, and first in rank, wit in the thought. This has been defined by Mr. Locke,* "to lie in the assemblage of ideas; and putting those together,...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." With all due deference to Mr. Locke's authority,... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1825 - 114 pagina’s
...humanity. Potish'd wit bestows, 1. 309. Mr. Locke defines wit to consist of an assemblage of ideas, brought 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. To which Mr. Addison adds, that these must occasion... | |
 | 1826 - 696 pagina’s
...knew well, and all here related is only too true. Pcnzancc, July 1826. IIAKLEY. LACONICS. WIT lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...found any resemblance or congruity thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | 1827 - 674 pagina’s
...function as that which the Phrenologist ascribes to his faculty of Wit. He represents Wit " as lying in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruily, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 pagina’s
...(continues Mr. Locke,) " may be " given some reason of that common observation, that men " who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories, have not "always the clearest judgment or deepest reason."* As and illustration of the tendency of analogies to mislead the judgment, I beg leave to quote a passage... | |
 | 1828 - 394 pagina’s
...another. And hence, perhaps, may be given some reason of that common observation, that men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 392 pagina’s
...above another. And hence perhaps may be given some reason of that common observation, that men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 390 pagina’s
...above another. And hence perhaps may be given some reason of that common observation, that men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
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