... 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; judgment, on the contrary,... Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Seite 18von John Timbs - 1829 - 360 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1838 - 908 Seiten
...there is the least difference," I accurately compare them, and so form a judgment " not likely to be misled by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another." I think it clear that the use of Comparison is to " detect incongruity where congruity appears," and... | |
| 1838 - 478 Seiten
...putting them 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," and says, " it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it by the severe rules of truth and good... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 812 Seiten
...putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions...another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereb) to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.' Let us... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 Seiten
...putting those together with quickness «nd variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, X 1 2 bv affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and... | |
| George Combe - 1842 - 524 Seiten
...in the assemblage of ideas wherein any resemblance or congruity can be found," he proceeds thus : " Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other...side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas whßrein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity... | |
| Hugh Kenner - 1987 - 404 Seiten
...things to a passive process. Locke himself pronounces the separation between Judgment, which consists in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein...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 - 1987 - 568 Seiten
...Distinction of 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... | |
| Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 Seiten
...[puts] 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." 7 These remarks are part of a passage 6. I do not mean to suggest that the topic is a trivial one.... | |
| H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 Seiten
...wit is the facility for rapidly combining ideas which appear to have some congruity with one another, 'thereby to make up pleasant Pictures and agreeable Visions in the Fancy': judgement is the power to discriminate between ideas and to detect differences, so that one is not... | |
| Robert J. Sternberg - 1990 - 366 Seiten
...and agreeable visions in the fancies; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, and separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. (35, 144) Locke also foreshadowed later ideas about the importance of mental speed and intelligence.... | |
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