 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 pages
...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled. There are many men of wit, to one man of sense. Pope. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 pages
...judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating, carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby...of wit, which strikes so lively on the fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people.' This If, I think, the best and most philosophical account... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 pages
...allow that all the Art of Rhetorick, besides Order and Clearness, all the artificial and figuracontrary to Metaphor and Allusion, wherein for the most part,...of Wit. which strikes so lively on the Fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all People; because its Beauty appears at first sight, and there is no... | |
 | Hugh Kenner - 1987 - 404 pages
...pronounces the separation between Judgment, which consists in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby...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 together with... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 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...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 hath... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, Ideas, wherein can be found the least Difference,...Similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. (£ssay, „ If, p Ij6)1, 18 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, ed. Ian Campbell... | |
 | Robert J. Sternberg - 1990 - 366 pages
...judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, and separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. (35, 144) Locke also foreshadowed later ideas about the importance of mental speed and intelligence.... | |
 | Richard H. Weisberg - 1992 - 344 pages
...judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein for the most part lies that entertainment...pleasantry of wit, which strikes so lively on the fancy.86 White himself alludes to this distinction from time to time in his text (138, 853), without... | |
 | Veronica Kelly, Dorothea von Mücke - 1994 - 364 pages
...Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other Side, In separating carefully one from another, Ideas wherein can be found the least Difference, thereby...proceeding quite contrary to Metaphor and Allusion, (i: 263-64) To Locke's "best and most philosophical Account" of wit, Addison says he wants to add just... | |
 | Jaakko Hintikka - 1994 - 278 pages
...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy," from judgement, the operation of discerning ideas, "thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another" (1690, vol. I, p. 203). Hobbes is taking metaphor to be a kind of ambiguity which, while not the most... | |
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... lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. 
