 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1801 - 342 pages
...autumn, and I find they are all seasons of the year; therefore a season of the year .is the genus. Then I observe wherein it differs from these, and...called its special nature, or its difference. Then by joiningthese together I make a definition. Winter is that season of the year wherein the days are shortest.... | |
 | Robert Eden Scott - Cognition - 1805 - 524 pages
...days ; therefore, this may be call* ed its special nature, or its dffference. Then, * by joining thefe together, I make a definition. * Winter is that season of the year "wherein the * days are shortest. ' This account of definition has confiderable plaufibility ; but, at the fame time, it is liable to... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1811 - 298 pages
...autumn, and I find they are all seasons of the year ; therefore a season of the year is the genus. Then I observe wherein [it differs from these, and...seasons; therefore this may be called its special nature of its difference. Then by joining these together I make a definition. Winter is that season of the... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 616 pages
...autumn, and 1 find they are all seasons of the year ; therefore a season of (he year is the genus. Then I observe wherein it differs from these, and...it is this which does primarily distinguish it from othor seasons ; therefore this may be called its special nature, or its difference. Then bj joining... | |
 | John Rippingham - English language - 1816 - 190 pages
...therefore this may be called its special nature of its difference. Then by joining these together 1 make a definition. Winter is that season of the year wherein the days are shortest. I confess indeed this is but a ruder definition of it : for to define it, as an C accurate astronomer, I must... | |
 | James William Gilbart - Language and languages - 1854 - 428 pages
...autumn, and I find they are all seasons of the year ; therefore a season of the year is the genus. Then I observe wherein it differs from these, and...season of the year wherein the days are shortest." But everything cannot be denned in this formal manner, and we may adopt any mode of expression we please,... | |
 | James William Gilbart - Language and languages - 1857 - 416 pages
...autumn, and I find they are all seasons of the year ; therefore a season of the year is the genus. Then I observe wherein it differs from these, and...season of the year wherein the days are shortest." But everything cannot be denned in this formal manner, and we may adopt any mode of expression we please,... | |
 | James William Gilbart - Language and languages - 1857 - 416 pages
...spring, autumn, and I find they are all seasons of the year; therefore a season of the year is the genus. Then I observe wherein it differs from these, and...season of the year wherein the days are shortest." But everything cannot be defined in this formal manner, and we may adopt any mode of expression we... | |
 | James William Gilbart - Logic - 1857 - 414 pages
...autumn, and I find they are all seasons of the year ; therefore a season of the year is the genus. Then I observe wherein it differs from these, and...Then by joining these together, I make a definition, muter is that season of the year wherein the days are shortest." But everything cannot be defined in... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...these, and that is in the shortness of the days; therefore this may be called its special nature, or difference: then, by joining these together, I make...season of the year wherein the days are shortest. In some parts of the world winter may not be cold, but at least the days are short; at the equator,... | |
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I consider first wherein it agrees with other things which are most like it, namely, summer, spring, autumn, and I find they are all seasons of the year ; therefore a season of the year is the genus. Then I observe wherein it differs from these, and that... 