 | George Combe - 1830 - 738 pàgines
...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 found any resemblance or congruityt t/iereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy *." - Essiv, b.... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 732 pàgines
...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 found any resemblance or congniity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy *." • Essay,... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 pàgines
...not always the greatest judgment; for wit lying chiefly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating carefully ideas, wherein can be found a... | |
 | 1832 - 282 pàgines
...most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can oe found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy: judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1833 - 518 pàgines
...by Addison, following Locke, who defines it " to lie in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein can...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* It may be defined more concisely, and perhaps more accurately, " A junction of things by distant and... | |
 | 1834 - 392 pàgines
...of the mind, has beet* defmed by Locke as " 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. " We shall make no farther attempt at a definition of this word, but leave that to our readers, and... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 364 pàgines
...clearest judgment or the 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 the other... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pàgines
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lyin^j most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary lieз quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pàgines
...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 np pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pàgines
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to quote chiefly as an instance of our "author's power of imagination, is as follows. In speaking of the... | |
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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... 
