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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... "
Wit and Humor - Page 4
by Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 261 pages
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

William James - Psychology - 2007 - 709 pages
...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...and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or eongraity, thereby to make up pleasant pietores and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the...
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The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English ...

Lee Morrissey - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 264 pages
...cited parenthetically in the text by line number. 33. Locke argues that wit, on the one hand, consists "in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety," and that "judgment on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from...
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

William James - Psychology - 2007 - 709 pages
...the clearest judgment or deepest reason. For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and patting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or eongreity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the...
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