 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 542 pągines
...that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy," Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 354 pągines
...Echo is a speaker ; but it is so mean a kind of wit, that if it deserves excuse it can claim no more. found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pągines
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason." 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 ileasatit pictures, and agreeable visions in the ancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on he... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 372 pągines
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason: for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 1058 pągines
...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,...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
 | 1812 - 84 pągines
...ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. Judgment on the contrary lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas, wherein can be found... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 518 pągines
...clearest judgement, or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pągines
...perceived than denned. According to Mr. Locke, wit lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions to the fancv. Mr. Addison limited this definition considerably, by observing;, that every resemblance... | |
 | 1814 - 632 pągines
...lying most in the assemblage of idea?, and putting those together with quickness and variety, whereiri can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pągines
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason: for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruUy, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, H 4 and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment,... | |
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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 always the clearest judgment or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those... 
