 | George Combe - 1842 - 524 pages
...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 together...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* Now, it may be demonstrated,... | |
 | Edward Johnson - 1842 - 584 pages
...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... | |
 | George Combe - 1843 - 522 pages
...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 together...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...works, they would at least have found a correct exemplification of it ' Wit,' says Locke, ' lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.' Locke was manifestly aware... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...works, they would at least have found a correct exemplification of it. ' Wit,' says Locke, ' lies most 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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...body, or between judgment and memory. Id. Ib. vol.'iii. p. 251. OftheCurcnftheCuui. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pages
...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 found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...discern in Barrow's particulars the face of a general proposition. He described Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy." (Human Understanding, book... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pages
...discern in Barrow's particulars the face of a general proposition. He described Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy." (Human Understanding, book... | |
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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... 
