 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...  The Spectator - Strana 1031853 - Počet stránok 742Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - Počet stránok 318
...lying most in the assemblage of ideas, * See Dr. Isaac Barrow's Second Sermon against evil speaking. and putting those together with quickness and variety,...any resemblance, or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; Judgment, on the contrary (says he) lies quite... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Počet stránok 612
...has given us the best account of wit in short that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant .pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - Počet stránok 802
...follow : ' 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...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up ileasatit pictures, and agreeable visions in the ancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on he... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - Počet stránok 508
...follow : ' 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...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - Počet stránok 504
...follow : ' 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...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - Počet stránok 540
...given us the best account of wit, in short, that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - Počet stránok 638
...gi/en us the best account of wit, in short, that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - Počet stránok 518
...that men, who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgement, or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - Počet stránok 482
...certain thoughts and expressions, mucheasicr perceived than denned. According to Mr. Locke, wit lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions to the fancv. Mr. Addison limited this definition considerably,... | |
 | 1814 - Počet stránok 632
...not always the clearest judgments, or deepest reason ; for wit lying most in the assemblage of idea?, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the... | |
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