Watts

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An abstract of every treatise he had read.

Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note.

Custom has an ascendency over the understanding.

He thought it carried something of argument in it.

Causal propositions are where two propositions are joined by causal words.

Be swift to hear; but cautious of your tongue.

A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors.

Language in which they can clothe their thoughts.

Cloudy and confused notions of things.

The rules of right jugdment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other.

'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect.

Whatsoever is dictated to us by God must be believed.

Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies.

To discolor all your ideas.

We are enabled to distinguish good from evil, as well as truth from falsehood.

A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects.

What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires!

There are many subtile impertinences learned in schools.

Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis.

A penetration into the difficulties of algebra.