Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... mind , the rational faculty in general ; and , especially in the plural , it could be used to distinguish one kind of mentality from another , as with Ascham's separation of " wits " into " quik ” and “ hard . " Thus " wit " is the ...
... mind , the rational faculty in general ; and , especially in the plural , it could be used to distinguish one kind of mentality from another , as with Ascham's separation of " wits " into " quik ” and “ hard . " Thus " wit " is the ...
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... mind to Wit , Fancy , and Judgment : that quick ranging of mind . . . which is joined with curiosity of comparing the things that come into the mind , one with another : in which comparison , a man delighteth himself either with finding ...
... mind to Wit , Fancy , and Judgment : that quick ranging of mind . . . which is joined with curiosity of comparing the things that come into the mind , one with another : in which comparison , a man delighteth himself either with finding ...
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... minds of men unto virtue . Nay , wise men and great Philosophers have accounted it , as the Archer , or musical Bow of the Mind . And certainly it is most true , and as it were , a secret of nature , that the minds of men are more ...
... minds of men unto virtue . Nay , wise men and great Philosophers have accounted it , as the Archer , or musical Bow of the Mind . And certainly it is most true , and as it were , a secret of nature , that the minds of men are more ...
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