ftanding, 360 Politics, contain two parts, 408 Practice, or exercife of the mind, fhould not be beyond its ftrength, 370 the understanding is improved by it, 331 Prejudices, every one fhould find out and get rid of his own, 344 Prefumption, a great hindrance to the understanding, 384 Principles, when wrong, are very prejudicial, 333, &c. we fhould carefully examine our own, 346, &c. the usefulness of intermediate principles, 358 Puffendorf, his writings commended, 408 Purchas, his collection of voyages commended, 410 Pyrard, his voyages commended, ibid. Parts, or abilities, their difference, RALEIGH (fir Walter), bis 325 may be improved by a due conduct of the understanding, ibid. Perfius commended, 411 Perfeverance in ftudy, neceffary to knowledge, 384 Perfonal identity, the author's opinion of it defended, 301, &c. Perfpicuity in fpeaking, wherein it confifts, 406 and how to obtain it, ibid. Petavius, his Chronology commend ed, 410 Petyt, his Rights of the Commons of England, commended, 409 Plants, their feveral forts, nourish ment, and propagation, 430 Hiftory of the World, 409 Reading, how the mind fhould be conducted in, 353 its end, 405 Reafoning, feveral defects therein mentioned, 325, &c. how it should be improv ed, 328 Religion, it concerns all mankind to underftand it rightly, 342 Refignation, or flexiblenefs, often obftructs knowledge, 369 Rochefoucault (duke of) his memoirs, 411 Roe (fir Thomas) his voyage, 410 Rushworth, his hiftorical collections commended, 411 SAGARD, Seed, 410 Sedler, his Rights of the Kingdom, commended, 409 Selden, his Titles of Honour, commended, 412 EGETABLES, an account of VEGET Sidney (Algernon) his Difcourfes them, 430 concerning Government, 408 Skinner, his Lexicon commended, 412 Society (civil) books that treat of the rife and nature of civil fociety, 408 Spelman, his Gloffary commended, Thevenot, his Collection of Voyages, 410 Theology, fhould be ftudied by all men, 342, 360 Thuanus, his Hiftory of his own Times, commended, 411 Tillotfon, archbishop of Canterbury, his elogium, 407 Understanding of man, its operations, 405 how it may be improved, 331, 405 man's laft refort to it for conduct, 323 to be improved by practice and habit, 331 wherein the laft judg ment of it confifts, 352, &c. Univerfality of knowledge, how it fhould be purfued, 354 Voffius (Gerhard John) his Etymologicum Linguæ Latinæ, commended, 412 Voyages, fee Travels Whear, his Methodus legendi Hiftorias, commended, 409 Words, fhould not be ufed without a fixed fenfe, 37* ས. YE EAR, made by the revolution Transferring of thoughts, not eafily of the earth about the fun, attained, 395 caufes of the difficulty 421 of doing it, 396 END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. |