[166] Montucla, i. 566.

[167] De Augm. lib. iv. c. 1.

[168] And in other passages: thus, "Ego enim buccinator tantum pugnam non ineo." Nov. Org. lib. iv. c. i.

[169] Lib. 1. Aphor. 78 et seq.

[170] Aug. Sc. Lib. iii. c. 4. p. 194. So in other places, as Nov. Org. i. Aph. 104. "De scientiis tum demum bene sperandum est quando per scalam veram et per gradus continuos, et non intermissos aut hiulcos a particularibus ascendetur ad axiomata minora, et deinde ad media, alia aliis superiora, et postremo demum ad generalissima."

[171] Nov. Org. 1. Aph. 22.

[172] Ib. Aph. 20.

[173] 1 Ax. 15.

[174] Nov. Org. lib. ii. Aph. 19.

[175] Inst. Mag. par. iii. (vol. viii. p. 244).