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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,... "
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 132
by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pages
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Selections from the Writings ...

Rev. Sidney Smith - English essays - 1854 - 296 pages
...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby 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. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, she is beautiful : undressed she is beauty's self. — C. on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in...mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion ; where.in,...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 4

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 pages
...judgment, i Dressed she is beautiful : undressed she is beauty's self — C. c. 182 SPECTATOR. [No. 62. on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in...mis-led 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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Dublin's Joyce

Hugh Kenner - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 404 pages
...things to a passive process. Locke himself pronounces the separation between Judgment, which consists in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein...misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, and the monkey-work of Wit, lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...
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The True Patriot and Related Writings

Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1987 - 568 pages
...Distinction of Right from Wrong; or as Mr. Lock hath more accurately describ'd it, "The separating carefully Ideas wherein can be found the least Difference, thereby...misled by Similitude, and by Affinity to take one Thing for another."3 Yet if we examine the Actions of Men, we shall not be apt to conclude, that Nature...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century

H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 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. (£ssay, „ If, p Ij6)1, 18 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman,...
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Metaphors of Mind: Conceptions of the Nature of Intelligence

Robert J. Sternberg - Psychology - 1990 - 366 pages
...and agreeable visions in the fancies; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, and separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein...misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. (35, 144) Locke also foreshadowed later ideas about the importance of mental speed...
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Poethics, and Other Strategies of Law and Literature

Richard H. Weisberg - Law - 1992 - 344 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...separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit, which strikes so lively on the fancy.86...
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The Birth to Presence

Jean-Luc Nancy - Philosophy - 1993 - 444 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...from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference.12 Thus Witz receives its concept from philosophy — the concept that unites all of its...
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Le Lettere vive: scritti di semantica dei mutamenti linguistici

Ivan Fónagy - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 404 pages
...metafora e il pensiero cosciente dal punto di vista del risparmio mentale. Il giudizio deve «separate carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference», mentre «no labour of thought» è richiesto nella metafora, nell'allusione e nell'espressione spiritosa;...
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