 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 σελίδες
...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...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. 24. Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty.... | |
 | 1851 - 486 σελίδες
...visions in the fancy. This definition of wit he places in opposition to judgment, which, he says, " lies quite on the other side," in separating carefully...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another Addison quotes this passage in the "Spectator" and says:— "This is, I think, the best and most philosophical... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 σελίδες
...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...to Metaphor and Allusion, wherein for the most part lie that entertainment and pleasantry of Wit which strike so lively on the fancy, and [are] therefore... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 σελίδες
...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled. There are many men of wit, to one man of sense. Pope. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 σελίδες
...thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in tho fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully,...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. — Locke. WIT AND JUDGMENT. — Where judgment has wit to express it, there is the best orator. —... | |
 | 1853 - 524 σελίδες
...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...avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity j to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and. allusion;... | |
 | 1853 - 756 σελίδες
...thereby to make up plt.-a.sant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas Therein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - 268 σελίδες
...agreeable visions in the fancy. This definition of wit he places in opposition to judgment, which he says "lies quite on the other side," in separating carefully...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. Addison quotes this passage in the Spectator, and says : " This is, I think, the best and most philosophical... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 σελίδες
...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,...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, andby affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 σελίδες
...Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from (mother, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another." — Kuay, &c., b. ii. o. xi. 8 2. " II ya done des esprits de deux sortcs. Lea nns remarquent aisement... | |
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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; judgment, on the contrary,... 
