 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,...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 132by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Claude Buffier - 1838 - 224 pages
...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies...misled by similitude, and, by affinity, to take one thing for another."* P. 20. The Strange JVames, Sfc. Nothing can be more unreasonable than the complaints... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 812 pages
...variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary lies...another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereb) to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.' Let us... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable enti clamore Cithferon, Taygctique canes Piitf-. flearg....nothing so much shows the nobleness of the soul, as tha bv affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1842 - 524 pages
...in the assemblage of ideas wherein any resemblance or congruity can be found," he proceeds thus : " Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other...side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas whßrein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1844 - 676 pages
...judgment, and, clearness of reason, which is to be observed in one man above another. Judgment lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein...misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another." So Dr. Turnbull in his Principles of Moral Philosophy, Part I. chap. 3, p. 94 :... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,...misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another." (Ese•iii, vol. i, p. M3.) This definition, such as it is, Mr. Locke took without... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1845 - 246 pages
...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,...from another ideas wherein can be found the least diiference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another."... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up 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, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...wherein can be found any " resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up plea" sant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; "judgment, on the contrary,...misled by similitude, and by affinity to. take one " thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite " contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein,... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary,...being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for... | |
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