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Philosophical use of words, ii.
251, § 3.

These very different, ii. 260,
§ 15.

Miss their end, when they ex-
cite not, in the hearer, the
same idea, as in the mind
of the speaker, ii. 252, § 4.
What words are most doubtful,

and why, ibid. § 5, &c.
What unintelligible, ibid.

Are fitted to the use of common

life, ii. 251, § 2.

Not translatable, ii. 200, § 8.
Worship not an innate idea, i. 60,
§ 7.
Wrangle, when we wrangle about
words, iii. 52, § 13.
Writings, ancient, why hardly to
be precisely understood, ii.
266, § 22.

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INDEX TO THE ADDITIONAL PIECES

IN THE

A.

THIRD VOLUME.

Air, its nature and properties,311.
Animals, how divided, 321.
Anticipation, or first conceived
opinions, hinder knowledge,
254.

Aristotle's Rhetoric commended,
299.

Assent, how it may be rightly
given, 265.
Association of ideas, a disease of
the understanding, 276, &c.
how to prevent

and cure it, ibid.
Atmosphere, its nature and ex-
tent, 311.

Attraction of bodies, 304.
whether explicable,

305.

Atwood (William) 297.

B.

Bacon (lord) his history of Henry
VII. 299.

Baudrand, his dictionary com-
mended, 300.

Bayle's dictionary commended,
ibid.

Belief, what it is, 330.
Bergeron (Peter) his collection
of voyages, 298.
Bernier, his Memoirs of the Grand

Mogul commended, ibid.
Blood, the circulation of it, 322.
Bodies, luminous, pellucid, and

opake, 323, 324.

Boileau, his translation of Lon-
ginus commended, 295.
Bottom of a question should be
sought for, 283.

Bracton, that author commend-
ed, 297.

Brady, commended, ibid.
Brown, his travels commended,
298.

Bruyere, his Characters a fine
piece of painting, 299.
Burnet, bishop of Sarum, his
history of the reformation
commended, ibid.

C.
Cæsar, his Commentaries, 295.
Calepin, his dictionary commend-
ed, 300.

Camden, his Britannia commend-
ed, 298.

Cange, (Charles du) his Glos-
sarium mediæ et infimæ La-
tinitatis commended, 300.
Cannon-bullet, how long it would
be in coming from the sun
to the earth, 311.
Cervantes, his Don Quixote, 300.
Chillingworth, his eulogium, 295.
Chronology, books that treat of
it, 299.
Common-place-book, Mr. Locke's
new method of making one,
331, &c.
Comines, (Philip de) his me-
moirs recommended, 299.
Coke, (lord) his second Insti-
tutes commended, 297.
Cooper, his dictionary commend-
ed, 300.

D.

Dampier, his voyages commend-
ed, 298.

Daniel, his history commended,

299.

Despondency of attaining know-
ledge, a great hinderance to
the mind, 272.
Dictionaries, how necessary, 300.
the best of them

mentioned, ibid.

Desultoriness, often misleads the

understanding, 238.

lord) his Life of Henry
VIII. commended, 299.
Heylin, his Cosmography men-
tioned, 297.

History, books that treat of ge-
neral, ibid.; and of the hi-
story of particular countries,
298.

Hoffman, his dictionary com-
mended, 300.

Distinction, how it differs from Horace, ibid.

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Meteors, 313.

Minerals, are vegetables, 319.
Modus tenendi Parliamentum,
297.

Moll (Herman) his geography

commended, ibid.
Morality, the best books that
treat of it, 295.

Moreri, his historical dictionary
commended, 300.

0.

Observation, very useful to im-
prove knowledge, 233.
Opinion, no one should be wished
to be true, 228.

P.

Paxton, his Civil Polity com-
mended, 296.

Partiality in studies, 244.

it misleads the under-
standing, 245.

Parts, or abilities, their difference,
207.

may be improved by a due
conduct of the understand-
ing, ibid.

Persius commended, 300.
Perseverance in study, necessary
to knowledge, 271.
Personal identity, the author's
opinion of it defended, 179,
&c.
Perspicuity in speaking, wherein
it consists, 294.
and how to obtain it,

ibid.
Petavius, his Chronology com-
mended, 299.

Petit, his Rights of the Commons
of England, commended,
297.
Plants, their several sorts, nou-
rishment, and propagation,
320.
Politics, contain two parts, 296.
Practice, or exercise of the mind,
should not be beyond its
strength, 255.

Practice, the understanding is
improved by it, 213.
Prejudices, every one should find
out and get rid of his own,

228.

Presumption, a great hinderance
to the understanding, 271.
Principles, when wrong, are very
prejudicial, 216, &c.

we should carefully
examine our own, 230, &c.
the usefulness of inter-
mediate principles, 243.
Puffendorf, his writings com-
mended, 296.

Purchas, his collection of voyages
commended, 298.

Pyrard, his voyages commended,
ibid.

Q.

Question, should be rightly
stated, before arguments
are used, 271, &c.
Quintilian, his Institutiones com-
mended, 295.

R.

Raleigh (sir Walter), his History
of the World, 297.

Reading, how the mind should
be conducted in, 237.
its end, 293.

Reasoning, several defects therein
mentioned, 207, &c.

how it should be im-

proved, 211.

Religion, it concerns all mankind

to understand it rightly, 225.
Resignation, or flexibleness, often
obstructs knowledge, 255.
Rochefoucault (duke of) his me-
moirs, 299.

Roe (sir Thomas) his voyage,
298.

Rushworth, his historical collec-
tions, commended, 299.

S.

Sagard, his voyage mentioned,

298.

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