...in the aflemblagtt oi Ideas, and putting thofe together with quicknefs and variety, wherein can lJ£ found any refemblance or congruity, thereby to make...pleafant Pictures, and agreeable Vifions in the Fancy i Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other fide, in feparating carefully one from another,...

...drefs'd, etc.] This definition is very exa£t. Mr. Lode had defined If it to confift " in the afiemblage of ideas, and putting thofe " together, with quicknefs...wherein can be " found any refemblance or congruity, whereby to make " up pleafant piftures and agreeable vifions in the fancy." But that great Philofopher,...

...drefs'd, etc.} This definition is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined Wit to confift '* in the aflemblage of ideas, and putting thofe together, " with quicknefs and variety, wherein can be found any re*' femblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleafant pic" tures and agreeable viilons in the fancy."...

...doing him a Service in this Refpecl. Befides, IVit lying moftly in the AfTemblage of Jdtai, and in the putting thofe together with Quicknefs and Variety,...wherein can be found, any Refemblance, or Congruity, to makeup pleafant Pictures, and agreeable Vifions in the Fancy ; the Writer, who aims at Wit, muft...

...ting thofe together with quicknefs and " variety, wherein can be found any refemH 2 " blance " blance or congruity, thereby to make up " pleafant pictures and agreeable vifions in " the fancy*." It maybe defined more curtly, and perhaps more accurately, " A " junction of things by diitant and...

...following Locke, who defines it «' to lie in the « aflemblage of ideas ; and putting thofe toge" ther, with quicknefs and variety, wherein can be " found...thereby " to make up pleafant pictures and agreeable vi« fions in the fancy *." It may be defined more curtly, and perhaps more accurately, " A junc" tion...

...fhort, that can any where be met with. Wit* fays he, lies in the aflemblage of ideas, and putting rhofe together with quicknefs and variety, wherein can be...pleafant pictures and agreeable vifions in the fancy. Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author obferves, generally confift in the likenefs of ideas,...

...doing him a fervice in this refpecl:. Befides, Wit lying moftly in the afiemblage of Ideas, and in the putting thofe together with quicknefs and variety,...wherein can be found any refemblance, or congruity, to make up pleafant pictures, and agreeable vifions in the fancy ; the t writer, writer, who alms at...

...Memories, have not always the cleared Judgment, or deepeft Reafon. For Wit lying mo ft , in the Aflemblage of Ideas, and putting thofe together with • Quicknefs and Variety, wherein can be found any Rirfemblance \ or Congruity, thereby to make up pleafant Pictures, and agreeable Vifions in the Fancy;...

...doing him a Service in this Refpect. Befides, Wit lying moftly in the Afiemblage of Ideas, and in the putting Thofe together with Quicknefs and Variety, wherein can be found any Kefemblance, or Congruity, to make up pleafant Pictures, and agreeable Viiions in the Fancy ; the Writer,...