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.
INDEX TO THE ADDITIONAL PIECES
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,
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.
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.
Dampier, his voyages commend- ed, 298.
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.
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