Quidquid imaginamur finitum est. Nulla ergo est idea neque conceptus qui oriri potest a voce hac, infinitum.—Ibid. III. 20.
Recidit itaque ratiocinatio omnis ad duas operationes animi, additionem et substractionem.—Ibid. I. 3.
Nomina signa sunt non rerum sed cogitationem.—Ibid. I. 15.
Veritas enim in dicto non in re consists.—Ibid. I. 31.
Sensio igitur in sentiente nihil aliud esse potest præter motum partium aliquarum intus in sentiente existentium, quæ partes motæ organorum quibus sentimus partes sunt.—Ibid. I. 317.
[255]Pepys's Diary, II. September 29, 1662.
[256]His "Wild Gallant" dates from 1662.
[257]"We love to get our mistresses, and purr over them, as cats do over mice, and let them get a little way; and all the pleasure is to pat them back again.—Mock Astrologer," II. 1.
Wildblood says to his mistress: "I am none of those unreasonable lovers that propose to themselves the loving to eternity. A month is commonly my stint." And Jacintha replies: "Or would not a fortnight serve our turn?"—Ibid.
Frequently one would think Dryden was translating Hobbes, by the harshness of his jests.