 | George Combe - 1843 - 522 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.' Locke was manifestly aware that this did not wholly define wit ; for he says it lies most (not altogether)... | |
 | 1844 - 858 lehte
...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 lehte
...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...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully ideas one from another,... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 lehte
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit [lies] mostly in the assemblage of ideas. and [puts] those together with quickness and variety, wherein...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." 7 These remarks are part of a passage 6. I do not mean to suggest that the topic is a trivial one.... | |
 | Hugh Kenner - 1987 - 404 lehte
...Machine of Lagado (1 1 1~5) is closely related to the notions of Hobbes and Locke (". . . wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance . . ."). On the Lagado machine, whenever there turn up " three or four words together that might make... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 lehte
...and False Wit', whence it became a highly influential critical orthodoxy: Locke finds Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together...pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the Fancy: Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
 | Robert J. Sternberg - 1990 - 366 lehte
...have a great deal of the one do not necessarily have a great deal of the other. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancies; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, and separating carefully, one from... | |
 | Richard H. Weisberg - 1992 - 344 lehte
...wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
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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... 
