 | English literature - 1831 - 536 páginas
...separating carefully ideas, wherein can be found a difference, thereby to avoid being misled, by similitude, to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and is acceptable,... | |
 | 1832 - 282 páginas
...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,...fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people.' VOL. II. D This 19, 1 think, the best and most j: '. . . cal account that I have ever met wi which... | |
 | 1836 - 932 páginas
...ideas wherein can be_ "found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and bv affinity to take one thing for another. This is a...is therefore so acceptable to all people. ' This, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I have ever met with of wit, which generally,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 páginas
...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." — Locbr's Essay, vol. ip 1 43. VOL. I. M the roaring of the sea as any other part of the game quantity,... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 364 páginas
...on the other side, in separating carefully one from the other ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, 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 often... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 páginas
...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." — Locke's Essay, vol. ip 143. singular passions are parts of the seditious roaring of a troubled... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 páginas
...wherein can be found the least difference, thereby •' " to avoid being misled by similitude, ami bv affinity to take one thing for another. , \ This is...is therefore so acceptable to all people.' ; This, I think, the best and most philo. sophical account that I have ever met with of wit, which generally,... | |
 | Claude Buffier - 1838 - 224 páginas
...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."* P. 20. The Strange JVames, Sfc. Nothing can be more unreasonable than the complaints so frequently... | |
 | 1838 - 478 páginas
...there is the least difference," I accurately compare them, and so form a judgment " not likely to be misled by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another." I think it clear that the use of Comparison is to " detect incongruity where congruity appears," and... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 812 páginas
...in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereb) to avoid being misled by 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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... 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. 
