...humour, jarte Sdjíufifotgcn auê ber .Knintnip béé (5barattcr¿. Laboured or forced wit is no wit. Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas , and putting those together with quickness and variety. (Addison.) Scott's humour in conversation, as in his works, was genial, and free from all causticity....

...deep thinker, and elicits truth* which are in vain suught for with any severe effort: ' Wit lie« more in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety.'— ADDIS о я. Humour is a •pecies of wit which flowa oat of the humour of а peñón; For «ire by...

...Elements of Mathematics must be the wittiest book in the world. Locke says, the word signifies " an assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance and congruity; thereby to make a pleasant picture, and agreeable vision to the fancy." Pope says, it...

...wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason. ' For Tit lying HOSE who have searched into human nature observe, that nothing so much sho «nd variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures,...

...wit is actually extinguished ? This leads me to a definition of wit. Locke describes it as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or cmgruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* Now, it may be...

...preceding Section. I. Of Wit. According to Locke, Wit consists, "in the assemblage of ideas ; and pulling those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity." (Essay on Human Understanding, book ii. chap. 11.) I would add to this definition, (rather by way of...

...and his works, they would at least have found a correct exemplification of it. ' Wit,' says Locke, ' o ȧ e[ mt? noà z3 = Z B[ V2mp YNg d ; Er j- h([ \/ R O W D' 6 T ج S sI 0 eau bu found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions...

...Nature to advantage dress'd, Sfc.] This definition is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together,...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great philosopher,...

...particulars (which have been enumerated) the face of a general proposition. He described wit as lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any semblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy. But...

...gay surprise — * * Locke defines wit to consist " in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity. "l If we inquire, upon what is founded the entertainment or pleasure which wit produces, I should answer...