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Quotes from Austin Allibone ed. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay — Isaac Watts

1674–1748 England

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The word Analysis signifies the general and particular heads of a discourse, with their mutual connections, both co-ordinate and subordinate, drawn out into one or more tables.

Austin Allibone ed. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay (1903)

Synthetic method is that which begins with the parts, and leads onward to the knowledge of the whole : it begins with the most simple principles and general truths, and proceeds by degrees to that which is drawn from them, or compounded of them ; and therefore it is called the method of composition.

Austin Allibone ed. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay (1903)

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