This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... who being ii. all cases, less able to look beneath the earface of tlings, obtains at the first glance the best view he can take of any subject; and therefore can display without any need of artifice, that easy unembarrassed confidence which can never be with equal effect, ttssumed. To speak perfectly well, in short, a man must feel that he has got to the bottom of the subject; and to feel this, on occasions where, from the nature of the case, it is impossible he really can have done so, is inconsistent with the character of great profundity. PART I OF THE INVENTION, ARRANGEMENT, AND INTRODUCTION OF PROPOSITIONS AND ARGUMENTS Chap. I.--Of Propositions. § 1. It was remarked in the Treatise on inquiry a Logic, that in the process of Investigation pro-ter Truth perly so called, viz. that by which we endea-JjijJJjJrt, vour to discover truth, it must of course be un-distinguish certain to him who is entering on that process, edwhat the conclusion will be to which his researches will lead; but that in the process of conveying truth to others by reasoning, (. e. in what may be termed, according to the view 1 have at present taken, the rhetorical process,) the conclusion or conclusions which are to be established must be present to the mind of him who is conducting the Argument, and whose business is to find Proofs of a given proposition. It is evident, therefore, that the first step to be taken i-y him, is to lay down distinctly in his own mind the jrciposition or propositions to be proved. I? might in deed at first sight appear superfluous even to mentioi so obvious a rule; but experience shows that it is 05 no means uncommon for a young or ill-instructed writer to content himself with such a vague and indisUnd view of the point he...