Joseph Glanvill
Clergyman and philosopher, 1636-1680
Cited as Glanvill. — 62 quotations
Amassment
An amassment of imaginary conceptions.
Angulous
Held together by hooks and angulous involutions.
Animadversion
The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called.
Apprehension
Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object.
Assertive
In a confident and assertive form.
Attrahent
The motion of the steel to its attrahent.
Bequeath
To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it.
Boggle
We start and boggle at every unusual appearance.
Catch
We retain a catch of those pretty stories.
Chaffy
Slight and chaffy opinion.
Charge
Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron.
Circle
That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing.
Circumstantially
Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only circumstantially different.
Confer
The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union.
Contrivement
Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric.
Crab
Sickness sours or crabs our nature.
Cradle
He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.
Cross
The cross and unlucky issue of my design.
Daunt
Some presences daunt and discourage us.
Deductive
All knowledge of causes is deductive.
Defecate
We defecate the notion from materiality.
Demonstrable
The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry.
Discompose
Opposition . . . discomposeth the mind's serenity.
dogmatic
[They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient.
Dogmatist
I expect but little success of all this upon the dogmatist; his opinioned assurance is paramount to argument.
Elongation
The distant points in the celestial expanse appear to the eye in so small a degree of elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real.
Emergency
Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency.
Enjoyment
The hope of everlasting enjoyments.
Estrange
We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced.
Genially
Some men are genially disposed to some opinions.
Hug
We hug deformities if they bear our names.
Illapsable
Morally immutable and illapsable.
Imagination
Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination.
Immaterialize
Immateralized spirits.
Incogitance
'T is folly and incogitancy to argue anything, one way or the other, from the designs of a sort of beings with whom we so little communicate.
Ineludible
Most pressing reasons and ineludible demonstrations.
Inept
The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries.
Infelicity
Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy.
Inference
Though it may chance to be right in the conclusions, it is yet unjust and mistaken in the method of inference.
Involution
All things are mixed, and causes blended, by mutual involutions.
Juxtaposition
Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition.
Likely
While man was innocent he was likely ignorant of nothing that imported him to know.
Locality
It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.
Preponderate
An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes.
Pretender
It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident pretenders to certainty.
Realize
We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighing a single grain against the globe of earth.
Receptive
Imaginary space is receptive of all bodies.
Recruit
Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color.
Reinstate
For the just we have said already thet some of them were reinstated in their pristine happiness and felicity.
Scoff
To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest.
Sense
Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him?
Sneak
A set of simpletons and superstitious sneaks.
Soft
The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's.
Subserve
It is a great credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
Substantiality
The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality.
Swoop
The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
Syntax
They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings.
Theologize
School divinity was but Aristotle's philosophy theologized.
titillation
Those titillations that reach no higher than the senses.
Transcript
The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian.
Vacuity
Their expectations will meet with vacuity.
Verisimilitude
Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult.