...in one man above another. And hence perhaps may be given some reason of that common observation that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories,...lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby...

...clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lyin^j most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment on the contrary lieз quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found...

...common observation that men who have a great deal of wit have not always the clearest judgment or the deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage...those together with quickness and variety, wherein can he found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in...

...given us the best account of wit, in abort, that can any where be met with. " Wit," saya he, " lies in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Thus does true wit, as this incomparable author observes, generally consist in the likeness uf ideas,...

...are as follow: ' And hence, perhaps, may be given some , reason of that common observation, ' That ^men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories,...For •wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, r and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity,...

...Opinions. Locke, says, "And hence perhaps may be given some reason of that common observation, that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories...not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason." So, too, Hartley observes, " Persons who give themselves much to mirth, wit, and humour, must thereby...

...ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resembla.net or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his...

...reflect on and observe in itself," that it lies " most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting them together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy," and says, " it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it by the severe rules of truth and good...

...definition of Wit. Locke describes Wit as "lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting these together with quickness and variety, wherein can be...pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.*" Now, it may be demonstrated, that this definition is erroneous. For example, when Goldsmith, in his...

...jarte Sdjíufifotgcn auê ber .Knintnip béé (5barattcr¿. Laboured or forced wit is no wit. Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas , and putting those together with quickness and variety. (Addison.) Scott's humour in conversation, as in his works, was genial, and free from all causticity....