...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. 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, therein/ to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; Judgment, on the contrary,...

...clearest judgment or deepest reason : for wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, whereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary,...

...that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies 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." Thus does true wit, as this...

...clearest judgment or deepest reason : for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congraity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the...

...SECTION. 1. OF WIT. According to Locke, Wit consists " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity."i I would add to this definition, (rather by way of comment than of amendment,) that wit...

...clearest judgment or deepest reason; for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or cougruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy;* judgment, on the...

...that can any where be met with. " Wit," says he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or cougruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true...

...SECTION. 1. OF WIT. According to Locke, Wit consists " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity."1 I would add to this definition, (rather by way of comment than of amendment,) that wit...

...it consists in something that is not perfectly conformable to them."* Now this notion of wit,—that it consists in putting those ideas together with quickness...resemblance or congruity, in order to excite pleasure in the mind,—is a little too comprehensive, for it comprehends both eloquence and poetry. In the first place,...

...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. 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,...