fication, ii. 35. And why, ii. 30. Inconstancy in their use, and
abuse of words, ibid. Obscurity, an abuse of words, ii. 37. Tak-
ing them for things, an abuse of words, ii. 41. Who most liable to
this abuse of words, ibid. This abuse of words is a cause of obsti-
nacy in error, ii. 43. Making them stand for real essences which
we know not, is an abuse of words, ii. 44. The supposition
of their certain evident signification, an abuse of words, ii, 44.
Use of words is, 1 To communicate ideas. 2. With quickness.
3. To convey knowledge, ii. 49. How they fail in all these, ibid.
How in substances, ii, 51. How in modes and relations, ibid. Mis-
use of words, a great cause of error. ii, 54. Of obstinacy, ibid
And of wrangling, ii. 55. Signify one thing in inquiries, and ano-
ther in disputes, ibid. The meaning of words is made kuown in
simple ideas by shewing, ii, 59. In mixed modes by defining, ii, 60.
In substances by shewing and defining too, ii, 62-64. The ill con-
sequence of learning words first, and their meaning afterwards, ii,
64 No shame to ask men the meaning of their words, where they
are doubtful, ii, 66. Are to be used constantly in the same sense,
ii, 67. Or else to be explained where the context determines it not,
ibid. How made general, i, 424. Signifying insensible things de-
rived from names of sensible ideas, i, 425. Have no natural signi
fication, i. 426. But by imposition, i. 450. Stand immediately for
the ideas of the speaker, i. 426. Yet with a double reference-
(1.) To the ideas in the hearer's mind, i. 428. (2.) To the reality of
things, i. 429. Apt by custom to excite ideas, ibid. Often used
without signification, ibid. Most general, i. 430. Why some words
of one language cannot be translated into those of another, i. 460.
Why I have been so large on words, i. 465. New words, or in new
significations, are cautiously to be used, i. 497. Civil use of words,
ii. 20. Philosophical use of words, ibid. Are very different, ii. 28.
Miss their end when they excite not in the hearer the same idea as
in the mind of the speaker, ii. 21. What words are most doubtful,
and why, ibid. What unintelligible, ibid. Are fitted to the use of
common life, ii. 20. Not translatable, i. 460.

Worship, not an innate idea, i, 85.

Wrangle, when we wrangle about words ii, 186.

Writings, ancient, why hardly to be precisely understood, ii, ss

INDEX

TO THE

ADDITIONAL PIECES

IN THE

SECOND VOLUME.

A.

AIR, its nature and properties, 394.

Animals, how divided, 402.

Anticipation, or first conceived opinions, hinder knowledge, 349.
Aristotle's rhetoric commended, 384.

Assent, how it may be rightly given, 358.

Association of ideas, a disease of the understanding, 366, &c.
how to prevent and cure it, ibid.

Atmosphere, its nature and extent, 394,

Attraction of bodies, 388.

whether explicable, ibid.

Atwood (William), 382.

B.

BACON (lord) his history of Henry VII, 384.

Baudrand, his dictionary commended, 385.

Bayle's dictionary commended, ibid.

Belief, what it is, 410.

Bergeron (Peter) his collection of voyages, 383.

Bernier, his memoirs of the Grand Mogul commended, ibid.

Blood, the circulation of it, 403.

Bodies, luminous, pellucid, and opake, 404.

Boileau, his translation of Longinus commended, 381.

Bottom of a question should be sought for, 372.

Bracton, that author commended, 382.

Brady commended, ibid.

Brown, his travels commended, 383.

Bruyere, his Characters, a fine piece of painting, 384.

Burnet, bishop of Sarum, his history of the Reformation commended,
ibid.

CESAR, his Commentaries. 381

C.

Calepin, his dictionary commended, 385.

Camden, his Britannia commended, 383.

Cange, (Charles du) his Glossarium Mediæ et Infinæ Latinitatis com-
mended, 385.

Cannon bullet, how long it would be in coming from the sun to the
earth, 393.

Chillingworth, his eulogium, 381.

Chronology, books that treat of it, 384.

Common place book, Mr Locke's new method of making one, 411,&c.
Comines, (Philip de) his memoirs recommended, 384.

Coke, (lord) his second Institutes commended, 382.

Cooper, his dictionary commended, 385.

D.

DAMPIER, his voyages commended, 383.

Daniel, his history commended, 384.

Despondency of attaining knowledge, a great hindrance to the mind,

363

Dictionaries, how necessary, 385.

the best of them mentioned, ibid.

Desultoriness often misleads the understanding, 336,

Distinction, how it differs from division, 354.

ibid.

how the understanding is improved by a right use of it,

E.

ETHICS, the Gospel a sufficient system thereof, 381.

F.

FALLACIES, how the understanding is misguided by them, s68.
Fleta, 382.

Fundamental truths, the mind should chiefly apply itself to them, 371.

G.

GAGE. (Thomas) his travels commended, 385.

Gentleman, what studies more immediately belong to his calling, 375,
what books he ought to read, 380, &c.

Geography, books that treat of it, 383.

H.

HACKLUT, his collection of voyages commended, 383.

Haste, when too great, often misleads the understanding, 385.

Helvicus, his chronology commended, 384.

Henningham, or rather Hangham, (sir Ralph de) 382.

Herbert of Cherbury, (Edward, lord) his life of Henry VIII. com-
mended, 384.

Heylin, his Cosmography mentioned, 383.

History, books that treat of general, 382, and of the history of parti-

cular countries, 384.

Hoffman, his dictionary, commended, 385.

Horace, ibid.

Howell, his history of the world recommended, 383.

Huygens, his Cosmotheoros commended, 392.

I.

IDENTITY, the author's opinion of it defended, 289, &c.
Ignorance, not so bad as groundless assurance, 361.
how it should be removed ibid.

Indifferency, for all truth should be cherished, 329.
the ill consequences of the want of it, 359.

Juvenal commended, 384.

L.

KNOWLEDGE, wherein it consists, 379.

ideas, ibid.

the extent of it, cannot exceed the extent of our

L.

LITTLETON, his dictionary commended, 585.
Lloyd, his dictionary, ibid.

M.

MARIANA, his history of Spain commended, 384.
Mathematics, the usefulness of studying them, 323.
Melvil (James), his memoirs commended, 384.
Metals, several sorts of them, 399.

Meteors, 396.

Minerals, are vegetables, 400.

Modus tenendi Parliamentum, 382.

Moll (Herman), his geography commended, s83.
Morality, the best books that treat of it, 381.
Moreri, his historical dictionary commended, 385.

O.

OBSERVATION, very useful to improve knowledge, 332.
Opinion, no one should be wished to be true, 328-30.

P.

PAXTON, his Civil Polity commended, 382.

Partiality in studies, 340.

it misleads the understanding, 541.

Parts, or abilities, their difference, 311.

may be improved by a due conduct of the understanding, ibid.
Persius commended, 364.

Perseverance in study, necessary to knowledge, 362.

Personal identity, the author's opinion of it defended, 289, &c.
Perspicuity in speaking, wherein it consists, 380.

and how to obtain it, ibid.

Petavius, his Chronology commended, 384.

Petyt, his Rights of the Commons of England, commended, 382,
Plants, their several sorts, nourishment and propagation, 400.
Politics, contain two parts, 381.

Practice, or exercise of the mind, should not be beyond its strength,

350.

the understanding is improved by it, 316.

Prejudices, every one should find out and get rid of his own, 327.
Presumption, a great hindrance to the understanding, 365.
Principles, when wrong, are very prejudicial, 318, &c.

we should carefully examine our own, 329, &c.
the usefulness of intermediate principles, 340.

Puffendorf, his writings, commended, 382.

Purchas, his collection of voyages, commended, 383.

Pyrard, his voyages commended, ibid.

Q.

QUESTION, should be rightly stated before arguments are used, 362.

Quintilian, his Institutiones commended, 381.

R.

RALEIGH (Sir Walter), his History of the World, 383.

Reading, how the mind should be conducted in, 338.

its end, 380.

Reasoning, several defects therein mentioned, 311, &c.

how it should be improved, 314.

Religion, it concerns all mankind to nderstand it rightly, 325.

Resignation, or flexibleness, often obstructs knowledge, 849.
Rochefoucault (duke of), his memoirs, 384.

Roe (Sir Thomas), his voyage, 383.

Rushworth, his historical collections commended, 384.

S.

SAGARD, his voyage mentioned, 385.

Sandys (George), his Voyages, ibid.

Scaliger de Emendatione Temporum, 884.

Sedler, his Rights of the Kingdom commended, 382.

Selden, his Titles of Honour commended, 385.

Sidney (Algernon), his Discourses concerning Government 381.

Skinner, his Lexicon commended, 385.

Society (civil), books that treat of the rise and nature of civil society,

381 2.

Spelman, his Glossary commended, 385.

State tracts, two collections of them commended, 382.

Stephens (Robert), his Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ commended, 385.
Stones are real vegetables, 40).

Strauchius, his Chronology commended, 384.

T.

TALLENT's Tables of Chronology, recommended, 384.

Terence, 381.

Thevenot, his collection of Voyages, 383.

Theology, should be studied by all men, 340.

Thuanus, his History of his own Times commended, $84.
Tillotson, archbishop of Canterbury, his elogium, 380.
Transferring of thoughts not easily attained. 373.

causes of the difficulty of doing it, 374.

how this difficulty may be overcome. 377.
Travels, books of Travels and voyages commended, 383.
Tully, his books de Oratore & de Officiis corninended, 381
Tyrrel (James), his History of England commended, 382.
V.

VEGETABLES, an acconnt of them, 400.
Understanding of man, its operations, 380-

bow it may be improved, 316, 380.

man's last resort to it for conduct, 309.

to be improved by practice and habit, 316.

wherein the last judgment of it consists, 354, &c.

Universality of knowledge how it should be pursued, 336.

Vossius (Gerhard John), his Etymologicum Linguæ Latinæ, commend-

ed, 685.

Voyages, see Travels.

W.

WANDERING, we should endeavour to keep our minds from it, 955-
Whear. his Methodus legendi Historias conuended, 383.

Words, should not be used without a fixed sense, 351.

Y.

YEAR, made by the revolution of the earth about the sun, 392.