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Pericles, 247.

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.

Philo, 382.

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.

Porphyry, 254, 323.

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.

Prior, the poet, 286.

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.

Quality, occult, 376.

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.

some-

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.

Sanctius, 378.

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.

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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.

Vappa. See Fopp.

Varro, 264. his account of four predica-
ments, ibid.

Vegetative life, described, 375. See Na-

ture.

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,

461.

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.

Amrus, 458, 485.

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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,

lent, 541.

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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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