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ng out of place, or of no value. There are many subtile impertinences learned in schools. Watts.

Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them. I. Watts.

ve the oppotunity. Blackstone. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. I. Watts. Those moments were diligently improved. Gibbon. True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion. Washington.

; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts.

Inherence; inherent existence. I. Watts.

y who, which, whose, whom, etc.; as, Julius, whose surname was Cæsar, overcame Pompey. I. Watts.

small four our senses, our ideas of these little bodies become obscure and indistinct. I. Watts. Their views, indeed, are indistinct and dim. Cowper.

nhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness. I. Watts. Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy. Glanvill.

ng, and the three propositions, taken all together, are called syllogism, or argument. I. Watts.

le; subordinate; underneath; beneath. A thousand inferior and particular propositions. I. Watts. The body, or, as some love to call it, our inferior nature. Burke. Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge. Dryden.

eat power; his understanding is infinite. Ps. cxlvii. 5. O God, how infinite thou art! I. Watts.

Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable. The nature of things is inflexible. I. Watts.

on; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law. I. Watts.

f(Col. iii. 25). Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments. I. Watts. Riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage. Milton.

tigation, or research; searching; curious. A young, inquisitive, and sprightly genius. I. Watts.

oluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty. I. Watts.

ke. Hope thinks nothing difficult; despair tells us that difficulty is insurmountable. I. Watts.

ivities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts.

on mischief." Milton. Be intent and solicitous to take up the meaning of the speaker. I. Watts.

and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them. I. Watts.