 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 psl.
...memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit, lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary lies quite... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 psl.
...Doctrine slated in the preceding Section. I. OP WIT. ACCORDING to Docke, Wit consists " in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting those together with quickness...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity." * I would add to this definition, (rather by way of comment than of amendment,) that wit implies a... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 psl.
...that I might see him in the same coach with the duke of Bruyere. xcm. Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congrulty thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 psl.
...putting those; together with quickness and varirty wherein can be found any rcsembhmce or con^ruil'j , thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions, in the fancy : judgment, on the contrary, he» quite on the other side, in separating cart-fully, en? fiom another,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1830 - 492 psl.
...only which is taken notice of by Addison, following Locke, who defines it " to lie in the assemblage of ideas ; and putting those together, with quickness...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."* It may be defined more concisely, and perhaps more accurately, " A junction of things by distant and... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1830 - 88 psl.
...and pat' ting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found the least difference or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy : judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another,... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 732 psl.
...putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congniity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy *." • Essay, b. ii. c. xi. § 2. • Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous.... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 738 psl.
...definition of Wit. LOCKE describes Wit as " lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruityt t/iereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy *." - Essiv, b.... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 psl.
...not always the greatest judgment; for wit lying chiefly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety wherein can be...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating carefully ideas, wherein can be found a... | |
 | 1832 - 282 psl.
...have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. — For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can oe found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in... | |
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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... 
