[196] On the title of Horne Tooke’s treatise, “Winged Words, or Language not only the Vehicle of Thought, but the Wheels,” see Coleridge, Aids to Refl. p. xv.
[197] Leibnitz, Nouv. Ess. The passage is quoted by Dr. Donaldson, New Crat. ch. iii., where the reader will find some admirable remarks on the subject of this chapter.
[198] Mr. Wedgwood’s Etym. Dict. p. ii.
[199] Essays, p. 18 seqq.
[200] Diversions of Purley, Part II. ch. v.
[201] Essays, p. 28.
[202] See Vinet, Essais, p. 349.
[203] Kant, quoted by Chalybäus, Speculative Philosophy, Tr. Tulk. p. 31.
[204] “There still remains the question, ‘Do things as they are resemble things as they are conceived by us?’—a question which we cannot answer either in the affirmative or in the negative; for the denial, as much as the assertion, implies a comparison of the two,” (which is impossible, if they are absolutely unknown). Mansell’s Metaphysics, p. 354.
[205] Act I. sc. iv.