| Philomathic institution - 1825 - 504 sayfa
...the assemblage of ideas; and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein can be round any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." With all due deference to Mr. Locke's authority, high as it undoubtedly is, on every subject to which... | |
| John Bull - 1825 - 782 sayfa
...ideas, and in putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any semblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. It is a junction of things by distant and fanciful relations, which surprise because they are tinex*... | |
| 1826 - 696 sayfa
...IIAKLEY. LACONICS. WIT lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance...separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein .can he found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take... | |
| 1827 - 674 sayfa
...that " wit consists chiefly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them " together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any " resemblance...pleasant pictures " and agreeable visions in the fancy." And he also agrees with Pope, that " an easy delivery as well as perfect conception," — and with... | |
| John Mason Good - 1829 - 736 sayfa
...deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another*." And hence we may easily account for that gaiety and those ebullitions of a vivid fancy, which so often... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 sayfa
...Bruyere. XCIIL Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. — Locke. XCIV. In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 sayfa
...deepest reason. For Wit, lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance...similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another. Essay, Ifc. B. ii. c. xi. § 2. " 11 ya done des esprits de deux sortes. Lcs uns remarquent aisemcnt... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 sayfa
...lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, ichtrein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby...similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another. Essay, tyc. B. ii. c. xi. § 2. " II ya done des esprits de deux sortes. Les uns romarquent aisement... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 sayfa
...putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congrulty thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. — Locke. XCIV. In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 sayfa
...putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.' Let us now hear the epigrammatic Frenchman, who sacrifices nearly as much to conciseness as the prosing... | |
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