| William Nicholson - 1821 - 356 páginas
...take one thinj; for another. It is the metaphor and allusion, wherein, for the most part, lies the entertainment and pleasantry 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 required... | |
| 1822 - 788 páginas
...another, ideas wherein can be found the least dif'erence, thereby to avoid being misled by simili:ude and by affinity, to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to mcaphor and allusion ; wherein, for ihe most part, ies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit, which... | |
| John Locke - 1823 - 388 páginas
...in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity...on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people, because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required no labour of thought to examine... | |
| John Locke - 1823 - 382 páginas
...in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity...on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people, because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required no labour of thought to examine... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 884 páginas
...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. Dressed she is beautiful, undressed she is Beauty's self. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary... | |
| John Locke - 1824 - 552 páginas
...separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference ; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity...on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people ; because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required no labour of thought to examine... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 páginas
...in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude: and by affinity...pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people.' This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account... | |
| 1824 - 284 páginas
...in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude: and by affinity...pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people.' This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account... | |
| John Mason Good - 1825 - 700 páginas
...common to them. Common progress of melancholy. External signs sometime! very itrong. ence, thereby to avoid being misled by 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... | |
| 1826 - 696 páginas
...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 one thing for another. — Locke. SLANDER is so fruitful that it cmploys a variety of expedients, to satiate as well as disguise... | |
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