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Producing sound; as, the sonorific quality of a body. [R.] I. Watts.

s on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism, or "fallacy". I. Watts. Let us first rid ourselves of sophisms, those of depraved men, and those of heartless philosophers. I. Taylor.

ecies; constituting a species or sort. A special is called by the schools a "species". I. Watts.

ifference is that primary attribute which distinguishes each species from one another. I. Watts.

question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts.

ost or wasted. "He was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company." I. Watts.

ight squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative. I. Watts.

rom some dreadful dream. Dryden. Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside. I. Watts. But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. Shak.

objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any subject. I. Watts.

ot. They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears. I. Watts.

The subject of a proposition is that concerning which anything is affirmed or denied. I. Watts.

s and substantial things." Shak. The rainbow [appears to be] a large substantial arch. I. Watts.

evasion. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument. I. Watts. By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory. Burke.

Susceptible. I. Watts. -- Sus*cep"tive*ness, n.

or frame arguments and refute them, without any real inward knowledge of the question. I. Watts.

stem, or a short and plain scheme of that science well drawn up into a narrow compass. I. Watts.

ystematical learning; whereas our fathers had a just value for regularity and systems. I. Watts. A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic. Whewell.

cloth to make a coat. This man always takes time . . . before he passes his judgments. I. Watts.

g our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of God. I. Watts.

o remedy. Bacon. Memory depends upon the consistence and the temperature of the brain. I. Watts.