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10 April 1815
Chrest. Tab. I

Howsoever it may be in politics, at neither in
logic nor in mathematics will the its capacity of receiving
the character of an innovation be regarded
as an object either to an idea or to a word, as long as any advantage to science can be shown
to be derivable from the use of it. But in the present
instance there is no innovation in the case.

That To what subject soever it be applied, the division
made should be exhaustive exhaustiveness we says
the Aristotelian logic will be among the properties of
the division if it be a good one. Membra
exhauricus divisum, says Bishop Saunderson, in by far the best
of the institutes of logic framed on the foundation
laid by Aristotle.

To apply to the subject science of grammar – to apply
to the aggregate body of the parts of speech – this same
exhaustive method, was the declared object of James
Harris in his Hermes from which, some forty or
fifty years ago, the idea and the term were taken by
the author of these pages. But, in this attempt to
make application of the principle, this worshipper
of immaturity under the name of antiquity, was
not so happy, as he was correct in the estimate framed
of its importance. Were No more their own idea could
he see where he saw no more their own name. An
adverb for example of place or time was to him, an in his eyes, a
single independent simple and independent part of speech, as simple upon a par in all respects of simplicity
with a proposition, or a noun substantive, or a
noun adjective. But, in every adverb is expressed the import
of all three. In the adverb Here is in this place.. Now is at this time.
Thus is in this manner – and

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Date_1	1815-04-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	138	Info in main headings field	chrest. tab. i
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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