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... The Principles of Psychology - الصفحة 480بواسطة William James - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 704عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lyin^j most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary lieз quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found... | |
| John Locke - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...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,... | |
| Edward Mammatt - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...common observation that men who have a great deal of wit have not always the clearest judgment or the deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage...those together with quickness and variety, wherein can he found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...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 of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...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 of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...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 of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...given us the best account of wit, in abort, that can any where be met with. " Wit," saya he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness uf ideas,... | |
| George Combe - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 740
...ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resembla.net or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...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 of ideas, r and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity,... | |
| 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...reflect on and observe in itself," that it lies " most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy," and says, " it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it by the severe rules of truth and good... | |
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