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By words we communicate our thoughts. (6 0)

Defects of Words.

CXLVIII.

Being the name of a non-existence, is a defect

of words.

CXLIX.

(6 P)

Being the confused name of an existence, as beauty, virtue, &c., is a defect of words. (6 Q)

CL.

Names of non-existences are remedied by experience, by a constant rejection and repeal of theories and fantastical notions.

(6 R)

CLII.

Confused names of existences are remedied, as far as they are remediable, by annexing precise

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Valuable conjectures, touching the natural dispositions and customs of people and nations, may be made from their language. (6 W)

CLVII.

As men abound in copiousness of language, so they become more wise or more mad than ordinary; nor is it possible without letters for any man to become either excellently wise, or (unless his memory be hurt by disease or ill constitution of organs) excellently foolish.

(6 X)

CLVIII.

Of words in different languages.

(6 Y)

Grammar.

CLIX.

The use of grammar is small in mother-tongues, is greater in foreign living languages, but greatest in dead languages.

(6 Z)

CLX.

A grammar, showing in what points every particular language excels, and in what points it is deficient, would be valuable.

(7 A)

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Gestures seem to originate in the desire to sup

ply the defects of words.

Hieroglyphics.

CLXV.

(7 E)

(7 F)

D

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Instruments are the philosopher's tools. (7 L)

CLXXI.

The arts of experimenting are,—

1. Continuance.

1. Natural.

2. Exclusion.

1. Simple.

3. Regulating motion. 4. Particular consents.

2. Artificial. 5. Compressing, ex

tending, agitating.

2. Compounding and changing.

6. Heat and cold.

(7 M)

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Of the common air and the rays of the celestial bodies.

(7 0)

CLXXIV.

Experiments of light and discovery ought for a time to be much more inquired after than experimenta fructifera, experiments of use and practice. (7 P)

CLXXV.

Of excluding the air, so as to retain the spirit

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Of different vessels, and the modes of closing them by luting; liquors, powders, barrels, in the

earth, water, &c.

(7 S)

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