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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,... "
Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ... - Page 47
by James Plumptre - 1809 - 284 pages
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The Study of Medicine, Volume 4

John Mason Good - Medicine - 1825 - 700 pages
...thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgement, on the contrary lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully,...from another, ideas wherein can be found the least differ* PhysiognomonicaJ System, &r. p. 144. 8vo. 1816. GIN. I. Sntc. I. £cphronifu Melancholia. Melancholy....
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The Cornish Magazine, Issue 25

English essays - 1826 - 696 pages
...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 one from another, ideas wherein .can he found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take...
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The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 4

Phrenology - 1827 - 674 pages
...resemblance or congruily, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude." If then it be true, that, after all, the phrenological faculty of Wit has just nothing at all to do...
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The Mental Guide: Being a Compend of the First Principles of Metaphysics ...

Psychology - 1828 - 394 pages
...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,...one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry...
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The Study of Medicine, Volume 4

John Mason Good - Medicine - 1829 - 736 pages
...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,...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another*." And hence we may easily account for that gaiety and those ebullitions of a vivid fancy, which so often...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 14

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 810 pages
...congruity, to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully,...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.' Let us now hear the epigrammatic Frenchman, who sacrifices nearly as much to conciseness as the prosing...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...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,...similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another. Essay, tyc. B. ii. c. xi. § 2. " II ya done des esprits de deux sortes. Les uns romarquent aisement...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...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,...similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another. Essay, Ifc. B. ii. c. xi. § 2. " 11 ya done des esprits de deux sortes. Lcs uns remarquent aisemcnt...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...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...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. — Locke. XCIV. In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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...similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. — Locke. XCIV. In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness...
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