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Prospects of Perfection in several Sciences
Philology.
1 Indexes of Proper names of men in all original for a perfect
Ancient Biography —
2d Indexes of Names of Places &c for a perfect Geography
3. Indexes of particular all Words at large to form perfect particular <add>National </add>
Grammar & Vocabularies Universal
3. Index Vocabularies perfect with references to the respective Authors
will serve make perfect Common-places & Harmonies — This can only be done in the dead languages — in the living the task would be be infinite.
4 Vocabularies Such Commonplaces will relate to Politics, Divinity &
Sciences real or imaginary with which the Ancients were conversant,
supersede in good measure the use cultivation of what is called Litterature, i.e. the laying in before hand a
promiscuous & incoherent &, what is never perfect, stock at the
of it's ever being wanted, instead of taking in pro se nota what is wanted,
as much as ever is shall be wanted
Chymistry —
All that is done in Chymistry consists in 1st subjecting bodies to various degrees
of heat or cold — 2d bringing their parts into contiguity
differences distinctions between bodies to be referred to the respective Senses
they are taken.
Philology Indices Universales
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