Peripatetics, 254, 269. their erroneous sys- tem of astronomy, ibid. their doctrine about corporeal attributes, 275. about chance, 286. about transmigration, 278. about capacity, 294. about the necessity of the previous existence of some energy, 333, 334. Perizonius, 378. Persius, 383.
Philip of Macedon, his epistle to Aristotle, 248.
Philoponus, John, 265. explains privation by the musical modes, 266. his account of matter and form, 267. explains De- mocritus, 349. and motion, 366. quoted, 375, 376. explains the term metaphy- sical, 368.
Philosophy, why so called, 247. its end, ibid. defended, 248. philosophy first, see First.
Physics, 257, 289, 294, 297, 300, 308, 317, 322, 325, 328, 329, 330, 344, 345, 346, 349, 360, 361-363, 364, 366, 375, 376. See the words Ethics and Metaphysics. Place, defined, 335. its use in life and human affairs, ibid. its connection with human affairs generates where, 336. place and time, quantities, 303, 304, 335. are capable of being defined, why, 335. Plants, or vegetables, live, but are not ani- mals, 372.
Plato, his idea of matter, 270, 271, 272.
quoted, 280, 286. his account of the liberal sciences, 307. quoted, 321, 350, 866, 372, 377, 378.
Platonic bodies, 343.
Pletho, 318. quoted from a MS. ibid. Plotinus, 293, 309.
Plutarch, 320, 321. correction by one of
his editors disapproved, 321. Plutarch quoted, 348, 382.
Poets, why indebted to the arrangement of quality, 300. why to that of relation, 315, 316. why to that of position, 347. Pompey esteemed Cratippus, and why, 249. Polybius, 247, 248. Pope, 354.
Position, differs from place, how, 342. de duced in its various characters, 342- 346. appertains to bodies, neither per- fectly similar, nor perfectly dissimilar, 344. modes of position, first in the pa- rallelopipedon and cylinder, 343. then in the column or pillar, 344. then in a tree, ibid. then in a man, ibid. and 345. modes of position increase in num- ber, and why, 343-345. positions de- scribed, standing, inclining, lying, falling, rising, 343. other positions, 344. posi- tions relative to animal progression, 345, 346. force of those positions in painting,
346. in other works of art, ibid. (See Attitude.) position gives a name, and (as it were) an essence to some works of art, ibid. its use to actors and orators, 348. reason of its amazing effects, 349. of its efficacy and importance in nature, and the visible world, ibid. transition to its force in mind, intellect, and beings incorporeal, ibid. in teaching, or com- municating science, 350. its archetypal form, where to be found, 351. Post-predicaments, 258. their number, 355. Power, or capacity, 331. particular powers, various in character, but limited, ibid. differ by this from one another, ibid. powers active, an important difference in, ibid. rational powers differ from ir- rational, by being double, and by im- plying both contraries at once, 332. whence this character arises, ibid. source of praise and dispraise, ibid. powers though latent, often valued above ap- parent attributes, ibid. and 333. power necessarily subsequent to energy, 333, 334.
Præ-predicaments, 258. Predicaments, 257. number of them dif ferent according to different philosophers, 258. pass into one another, 305. Principles are contrary, 262. this the senti- ment of all philosophers, ibid. are three, and why, 264. principles, form, priva- tion, and a subject, 265. of these, some agree, others never agree, 264. three principles reduced to two, privation being included in form, 266. principle active and principle passive, what, 328. prin- ciples efficient, their ascent upwards to the first efficient, 334. vegetative prin- ciple, 375. principle of gravitation, 376. two great principles of the universe, what, 381.
Prior and subsequent, their modes, or spe- cies, 355-358. the temporal mode, 355. the essential, 356. that of order, 357. that of honour, ibid. that of causality, 358.
Privation, its character, 265, 348, 355, 379.
Progression in arts, 250. in morals, 294. Property of substance, 288. of quality, 300. of quantity, 305. properties of all three, ibid.
Propositions, what, 251, 252, 259. no in- nate, 369.
Proteus, his history according to Virgil and
Homer; according to Horace and Ovid, 272. allegorized by Eustathius and He- raclides Ponticus, and, in latter times, by lord Verulam, ibid. Providence, nothing hid from, 287. con- sults for the good of all, ibid. extends to the lowest of beings, 376.
Psalm, 287, 310, 354.
Pythagoras, supposed author of the Predi- caments, 250. quoted, 264. Pythagoreans, 264, 278, 366, 372.
Qualities corporeal, inseparable from body, 274. sensible, ibid. quality comes next to substance, according to the Pytha- goreans, 291. qualities corporeal and in- corporeal, 292. of capacity and incapa- city, 293. of habit, 295. natural and acquired, 292. penetrating and superfi- cial, 297. figures, qualities, 298. colours, quality, 299. qualities, how distinguished from incidental affections, ibid. persons of quality, ibid. and 300. peculiar pro- perty of quality, 300. quality and quantity often introduced together, 254. 310.
Quantity, continuous or discrete, magnitude or multitude, 302. specific distinctions between the two species, 303. distinc- tions of either species resolved ultimately into identity and diversity, 305. the property of all quantity, what, ibid. quantity passes into relation, ibid. passes through all the other arrangements, 308. sublime idea of its efficacy, according to Plotinus and Iamblichus, 309. compared to the predicament where, 337. Quinctilian, 257, 310, 339, 377, 382. Quotations, apology for their number, 381, 382. justified by examples, 382.
Raleigh, sir Walter, 248.
Rasa tabula, the human mind or intellect so called, and why, 284, 370. Rational and irrational faculties, 371. Reason, 320, 371. its object, ibid. times overwhelmed by the passions, some- times obeyed by them, 373, 374. Relatives, other arrangements or predica- ments pass into them, 305. commutable in their character, ibid. 306. why ex- pressed by a plural, 311. their force and efficacy, 312. true and genuine relatives, what, ibid. 313. their properties are, to reciprocate, 313. to be understood both of them at once, and with equal preci- sion, ibid. both of them to co-exist, and cease at the same instant, 314. other predicaments connected with relation, 305, 312, 313. relation appears trivial, yet, in fact, is of the last importance, 314, 315. the basis of moral duties, 315, 316. supplies connection, where con- tinuity fails, 316. relation traced through the universe, ibid. those of the sun to the world, 317. of the earth to vege- tables, ibid. of animals, families, civil polities to each other, ibid. 318. of ve- getables, 318. relations amicable, 319.
hostile, ibid. hostile relation gave rise to the phenomenon of evil, 320. chief and supreme relation, that of the whole to God, 322. utility of this arrangement, ibid. things intelligible, and intellection; things sensible, and sensation; how these become relatives, 323.
Rest, the natural opposite, or contrary to motion, 363. its several species, 378, 379. cessation of local motion, 378. of growth, ibid. of the vital energies, ibid. of bodily labour, ibid. of study, investi- gation, and deliberation, ibid. of war, 379.
Roscius, more admired, when he acted with- out a mask, 348.
Sanderson, 258, 313, 335, 342, 351. Sandys, 382. Sappho, 293.
Satura, or satira, when applied to writings, did not mean at first either sarcasm or calumny, 383.
Satyrus, the actor, 349. Scaliger, 379.
Science, is of contraries, 332. sciences and arts, their subordination, and common dependence on the first philosophy, 356. science prior to art, ibid. its etymology in Greek, 378. no science of particulars, 254. sciences and arts, traced up to, and deduced from, the several arrangements or categories, by examples taken from each of them, 383, 384.
Scripture, 260, 264, 282, 287, 310, 322, 339, 348, 353, 354, 375, 379. Seneca, 368, 369, 371, 382.
Sensation, not taught, but perfect from the beginning, 294. a species of knowledge, 370.
Sense, common, what, 309. Sensible objects, differ from relatives, how,
314. sensible objects, common to many or all of the senses, what, and how many, 364.
Shaftesbury, lord, quoted, 279. Shakspeare, 269, 292, 299, 300, 316, 324, 336.
Sibyl, Cumean, 289. Sicily, 345.
Sidney, Algernon, 248. Silva, a wood or grove, meant a miscellany treatise, why, 383. Simplicius, his account of the predicaments, 257. wrote a valuable tract upon the subject, 250. quoted, 262, 266, 281, 291, 293, 297, 298, 309, 311, 312, 314, 315, 322. his account of the enharmonic system, and of the Stoic writings, in the age when he lived, 323. quoted, 324, 325, 326, 328, 336, 337, 342, 351, 352, 355, 358.
Situation. See Position.
Sleep and death, brothers, 348, 378. sleep, what, 378.
Social sympathy, 291. state, 370. Socrates, 284, 307, 379, 380. Sophocles, 348.
Soul, its three great principles, 280. itself not visible, but known from its opera- tions, ibid. immortal, 283.
Space, of place and time, connected with motion, how, 364.
Sphere, has no position, or situation, though it occupy place, 343, 345. Spontaneous, how it differs from forced, 368. what it is, and what constitutes it, 368, 369, 370.
Stat and sedet, peculiar uses of them, 378. Statius, 383.
Stoics, 254, 269, 369. account of the state of their writings in the time of Simplicius, 323.
Strife, its utility, 321. Stuart, 383.
Sublunary, meaning of the word, 269. Substance and attribute, 255, 381. general and particular, 255. at the head of the predicaments, 257. substance natural, how continued, or carried on, 259. sub- stance, its properties, considered logically, 268. has no contraries within itself, ibid. but susceptible of them all, ibid. Substantial form, what, 275, 297, 298. 362. Suidas, 286.
Sun, his relations and duties, 317. a cause of generation, 321. presides over his proper system, 349.
Supreme Being, 279, 281, 290, 296, 322, 326, 334, 341, 350, 380. ZUOTOIXía, 264. See Co-arrangement. Sydenham, his elegant translation of Plato, 350, 378.
Syllogisms, 251, 252, 374.
Sylva, matter, 270, 321. sylvæ, miscel- lanies, 383.
Systems of nature, four: one, which ad- mitted no God, 286. a second, which supposed gods, that gave themselves no trouble, 287. a third, which only em- ployed them on difficult occasions, ibid. a fourth, which supposed Divine Pro- vidence never to cease for a moment, ibid.
Thales, his idea concerning the magnet, 376. fine sentiment about Providence, ibid. 287.
Themistius, 266. his idea of matter, 268, 269, 290. Theognis, 265,
Thrasea Pætus, 248, 358. Tibullus, 311.
Timæus, 270, 271, 272, 292. Time, place, both of them quantities, 303, 335. time, how distinguished from other quantities continuous, 304. distinction, a peculiar one belonging to time and place, ibid. time infinitely divisible in power, but not in act, ibid. having a genus, and a difference, may be defined, 335. its use in life, and human affairs, 336. connection with human affairs ge- nerates when, 335, 337. Tous Deux, 274.
Tragedy and comedy made out of the same letters, 350.
Transition. See Motion.
Truth, all truth, good, 374. its union with taste, in fine writing, 383. all truth, similar and congenial, 247, 383. conse- quence of this in the forming of cha- racters, 247. in the elegance of composi- tion, 383.
Typhoeus, the giant, his positions finely enumerated by Ovid, when he describes how the island Sicily was thrown upon him, 345.
Vanbrugh, sir John, his elegant reply, and his predicting the fine taste of garden- ing, now at its height in Great Britain, 353.
Varro, 264. his account of four predica- ments, ibid.
Vegetative life, described, 375. See Na-
Velleius Paterculus, 248.
Venus wedded to Vulcan, the fable ex-
plained, 250. her motion as a goddess, 308. her appearance, 311.
Utility of these arrangements or predica- ments, 253, 258, 381, 382, 383. Verbs transitive, and neuter, where to be found among the predicaments, 327. Verulam, lord, 272.
Virgil, 275, 280, 281, 287, 288, 292, 301,
302, 308, 311, 317, 320, 324, 328, 332, 336, 339, 340, 347, 348, 354, 358. 361, 374, 375, 376, 378, 379. Virtue, Pleasure, and Hercules, 326. moral virtue, 296.
Unifying comprehension, the property of mind, 289, 290. Union, 262, 321, 322.
Volition and perception, their objects coin- cide, where, 374.
Υποκείμενον and ὕλη, how they differ, 269. Upton, 248, 287.
Wallis, 335, 342, 351.
Wants, their efficacy, 316, 317, 322. source of connection, 369. founded on percep- tion, 373. the source of animal motion, ibid. lead to arts and industry, 379. to have few wants is great; to have none, divine, ibid.
When, connected with time, 335. its na- ture and character, 337. coincides with where, ibid. an enlarged when, and a pre- cise one, both of them relative to each in- dividual, 338. use of the precise when, in computation of distant time, ibid. Where, connected with place, 335. its na- ture and character, 337. coincides with when, ibid. where and when called by Simplicius brothers, ibid. an enlarged where, and a precise one, both of them
relative to each individual, 338. use of the precise where, in computing distant places, ibid. compared with quantity, 337.
Wilton house, its valuable marbles, 347. Wisdom, book of, 375.
Words, things, ideas, all respect simple terms, and how, 252, 253.
World, one city or commonwealth, 316, 317. a theatre, 320. made by reason and design, 340.
Xenophon, the speech he gives to Cyrus when dying, 280, 283. his account of the earth's justice, 317. of Virtue, Plea- sure, and Hercules, 326. quoted, 379, 380.
Zyv, Zwa, the first applied to plants, or vegetables; the latter not applied, and why, 372.
INDEX TO PHILOLOGICAL INQUIRIES.
Almanzor, Caliph, 479. Al-Mostasem, caliph, his mean behaviour, 495.
ABASSIDE, caliphs, 479. illustrious race, ibid. extinguished, when, 495, 496. Abelard, Peter, and Heloisa, 508. Abulfeda, Arabian historian, account of Alpharabi, 479. of him, 480. quoted, passim. Abulpharagius, Arabian historian, account him, 480. quoted, passim.
Academy, the place where Plato taught,
Academy, New, by Arcesilas and Car- neades, 461.
Accent, differs from quantity, how, 405. accurately distinguished, anciently, ibid. prevailed at length over quantity, 408, 515. samples of its force, 409, 410. Accentual quantity, used even by classic writers, and by whom, and how far, 411. prevails in English verse, and in that of all the other modern languages, 411, 412. Accumulation, exemplified, 402, 403. cause or reason of its force, 403, 404. Accuracy, important every where, but where most so, 425.
Acrostics, chronograms, wings, altars, eggs, &c. finely described, 520, 521. Acts of the Apostles, 464. Addison, his elegant comedy, 446. superior to Swift, both in diction and wit and philanthropy, 538. fine comment on Mil- ton, 394.
Admiration, upon what founded,401. foolish, how cured, 453.
Adrian, a capital benefactor to Athens, 464. Elian, 525.
Eneas Sylvias (afterward pope Pius the Second) deplores the taking of Constan- tinople, and describes its state, imme- diately previous to that fatal event, 476. schines, the Socratic, 452. Affability, see Saladin, 480.
Amalfi, the city, where the Pisans found Justinian's Code, 501.
Ammonius, his description of contraries, 402. account of him, and his valuable comments, 457.
Anthology, Greek. See Planudes, 470, 473. Antipater, 463.
Antiphona, described, 549.
Arabians, 478-496. their national cha- racter, 478, 482. favoured medicine and astrology, 492, 494, 495. had no ideas of civil liberty, 495, 543. their poetry 484-487. loved allegory, 485. their degeneracy, 496.
Arabian poetry. See Poetry. Aratus, 464. Arcesilas, 461. Aristophanes, 469.
Aristotle, father of criticism, 389. quoted, 401, 402, 404, 406, 407, 408, 413, 415, 416, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 434, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 446, 449, 451, 452, 460, 461, 462, 467, 470, 487, 496, 501, 508, 518, 519, 530, 540.
Arrian's Epictetus, 397.
Agriculture, in Arabian Spain, how excel- Ashley, Honourable Maurice Ash. Cowper,
his fine translation of the Cyropædia, 395.
Astrology, 492, 494, 495. Atheism, what leads to it, 538. Athenæus 463, 467.
Athens, a place of education, 464. of phi- losophical retreat, ibid. St. Paul there, ibid. besieged by Alaric, 465. how saved, and by whom, ibid. taken, and by whom, 466. present character of its inhabitants, from Spon, Wheeler, and Stuart, 467. Athenians, 459. their high taste, when it began, ibid. survived their empire, 460, 463.
Attica, still famous for olives and honey, 467. Atticus. See T. Pomponius. Averroes, 479. his patience, 491. his com- ment upon Aristotle, 496.
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