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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,... "
The Spectator, no. 1-314 - Page 103
by Joseph Addison - 1837
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...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,...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity VOL. VII. B 2 SPECTATOR. NO 6!?. to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 7

British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...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,...carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the le*st difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity VoL. VII. B <• •...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...rffeke up pleasant pictures and agreeable vi< sions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies 1 quite on the other side, in separating carefully one...least ' difference, thereby to avoid being misled by siniili' tude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. ' This is a way of proceeding quite contrary...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lie$ quite on the other side, in separating carefully one...least ' difference, thereby to avoid being misled by simili4 tude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. ' This is away of proceeding quite contrary...
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NL orphan barcodes on file at ReCAP

1804 - 676 pages
...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...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one ihing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite Contrary to metaphor...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 6

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...of wit, in short, that can any where be met with. "Wit," says he, "lies in the, assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness of ideas,...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 554 pages
...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,...difference ; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, .and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is away of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor...
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The French Anas ...

Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 418 pages
...marks the distinguished faculties of wit and judgment j " Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...from another, ideas wherein can be found the least diflcrence; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, &c." LOcKE, cliap. xi. on Discerning. SINGLE...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 562 pages
...resemblance or congruity, (hereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agree.!/• /. ment. K 4 abl« able visions in the fancy; judgment on the contrary, lies...difference ; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one tiling for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor...
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An Analytical Abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1808 - 346 pages
...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,...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take otie thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to Metaphor...
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