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. Lectorides's memory is ever . . . presenting him with the thoughts of other persons. I. Watts.

the nature of, a proposition; considered as a proposition; as, a propositional sense. I. Watts.

marched, and many a province wide. Milton. Other provinces of the intellectual world. I. Watts.

produces the effect, as distinguished from the remote, mediate, or predisposing cause. I. Watts. (b) That which in ordinary natural sequence produces a specific result, no independent disturbing agencies intervening. -- Proximate principle (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies existing ready formed in animal and…

poetic measures, contain rules relating to common prudentials as well as to religion. I. Watts.

e fetters on his shins great. Chaucer. A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy. I. Watts.

ve distinction; an evasion; a cavil. Quibbles have no place in the search after truth. I. Watts.

ble classes or order; to classify. Ranking all things under general and special heads. I. Watts. Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers. Broome. Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft. Dr. H. More.

Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science. I. Watts.

hangeable. These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined. I. Watts.

n used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts.

ful; pleonastic. Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. I. Watts.

Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate. I. Watts.

mselves; in justice and goodness with regard to their neighbors; and piefy toward God. I. Watts.

bsolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.

d; I cannot remember dates. We are said to remember anithing, when the idea of it ariseI. Watts.

ence, to furnish; to contribute. Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue. I. Watts.

ce it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent. I. Watts.

Reply to an objection in formal disputation. I. Watts.

atural, but a moral, universality also is to be restrained by a part of the predicate. I. Watts.