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... The Principles of Psychology - Página 484por William James - 1890Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 páginas
...great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. But wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...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... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1823 - 418 páginas
...thought, is that only which is taken notice of by Addison, following Locke, who defines it " to lie in the assemblage of ideas ; and " putting those together,...variety, " wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, " thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable vi" sions in the fancy."* It may be... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 páginas
...observation, that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. — For wit lying most in the assemblage...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... | |
| John Locke - 1824 - 552 páginas
...that men, who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on... | |
| 1824 - 284 páginas
...57 that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. — For wit lying most in the assemblage...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... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 páginas
...Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find. That gives us back the image of our mind, 300 NOTES. " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together,...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 páginas
...Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind, 300 NOTES. " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together,...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." But that great... | |
| 1825 - 486 páginas
...first in order, and first in rank, wit in the thought. This has been defined by Mr. Locke,* "to lie in the assemblage of ideas; and putting those together,...and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." With all due deference... | |
| Philomathic institution - 1825 - 504 páginas
...first in order, and first in rank, wit in the thought. This has been defined by Mr. .Locke,* "to lie in the assemblage of ideas; and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein can be round any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the... | |
| John Bull - 1825 - 782 páginas
...putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any semblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. It is a junction of things by distant and fanciful relations, which surprise because they are tinex*... | |
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