 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 pages
...in the discerning faculty; for a person who cannot accurately distinguish between a slight connexion and one that is more intimate is equally affected...memory is seldom connected with a good judgment.' In all this confirmation of experience there is a mixture of truth, but there is as great a mixture... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1830 - 492 pages
...shillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath, deny it if thou canst? — Second Pan, Henry IF. act 2. gc. 1. On the other hand, a man of accurate judgment cannot...comprehensive memory is seldom connected with a good judgment. As an additional confirmation, I appeal to another noted observation, that wit and judgment are seldom... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 pages
...SECOND PABT, HEN. IV. ACT II. Sc. 2. On the other hand, a man of an accurate judgment cannot have a flow of ideas ; because the slighter relations, making...figure in his mind, have no power to introduce ideas ; thence an accurate judgment is not friendly to eloquence. A comprehensive memory is seldom connected... | |
 | Edward R. Cotten - 1840 - 280 pages
...man of accurate judgment therefore, cannot have a' great flow of ideas, because the slighter relation making no figure in his mind, have no power to introduce...not friendly to declamation or copious eloquence. It is not from a defect of memory, that fewer of the ideas which prevail in common conversation arise... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 pages
...substantial and permanent. Thus memory and wit are often conjoined: solid judgment seldom with either. On the other hand, a man of accurate judgment cannot...comprehensive memory is seldom connected with a good judgment. Every man who attends to his own ideas, will discover order as well as connection in their succession.... | |
 | Thomas Brown, James Parkinson Boyle - 1849 - 370 pages
...relation indifferently, and the slight relations being without number, furnish ideas without end; while, on the other hand, a man of accurate judgment cannot have a great flona of ideas, because the slighter relations making no figure in his mind, have no power to introduce... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1859 - 512 pages
...canst ? Filstaff. What is the gross sum that I owe thcef Second Part, ilenry IV. Act II. Sc. 2. 58. On the other hand, a man of accurate judgment cannot...comprehensive memory is seldom connected with a good judgment. 59. As an additional confirmation, I appeal to another noted ob-servation, That wit and judgment aro... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1860 - 744 pages
...I put thee now to thy book oath, deny it if thou canst — Second Part, Henry IV. Act2, Scene 2. " On the other hand, a man of accurate judgment cannot...or comprehensive memory is seldom connected with a gooc judgment."* It is not from any defect of memory, as Lord Kames thinks, that fewer of the ideas... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - 1883 - 740 pages
...neglected, tends to lessen the uncultivated ability. " A man of accurate judgment," says Lord Kames, " cannot have a great flow of ideas; because the slighter...memory is seldom connected with a good judgment." The first sentence in this passage may be too unqualified; in many men, the exercise of sound judgment... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - 1883 - 738 pages
...neglected, tends to lessen the uncultivated ability. " A man of accurate judgment," says Lord Kames, " cannot have a great flow of ideas ; because the slighter...mind, have no power to introduce ideas. And hence it ia, that accurate judgment is not friendly to declamation or copious eloquence. This reasoning is confirmed... | |
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On the other hand, a man of accurate judgment cannot have a great flow of ideas, because the slighter relations, making no figure in his mind, have no power to introduce ideas. And hence it is, that accurate judgment is not friendly to declamation or... 
