 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...  Notes and Queries - Seite 301864Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 Seiten
...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 together...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,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 Seiten
...and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason." For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separat. * How heautiful sheflooks when... | |
 | John Locke - 1817 - 556 Seiten
...and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agree.. able visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating... | |
 | 1829 - 612 Seiten
...thought, and wit in the word. And fiist, wit in the thought : this has been denned by Mr. Locke, ' to lie in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting those together,...up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the faucy.' With ail due deference 10 Mr. Locke's authority, high as it undoubtedly is, on every subject... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 Seiten
...and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason.' For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures, and agreeable: visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite1 on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 518 Seiten
...and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on ttye other side, in separating carefully, one from anather,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 Seiten
...clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying mostly 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, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 516 Seiten
...putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruitya thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite oii the other side, in separating carefully, one from anather,... | |
 | 1829 - 632 Seiten
...Locke, "is a faculty of the mind, consisting in the assembling and putting together of those ideas with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity; by which to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions, in the fancy. ' "This faculty," the same... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 382 Seiten
...Illustrations of the Doctrine stated in the preceding Section. 1OF WIT. JL ACCORDING to Locke, Wit consists " in the assemblage of ideas ; " and putting those together...wherein " can be found any resemblance or congruity."* I would add to this definition, (rather by way of explanation than amendment,) that Wit implies a power... | |
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