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instances, deviating instances, bordering instances, in 

 stances of power, accompanying and hostile instances, 

 subjunctive instances, instances of alliance, instances of the 

 cross, instances of divorce, instances of the gate, citing in 

 stances, instances of the road, supplementary instances, 

 lancing instances, instances of the rod, instances of the 

 course, doses of nature, wrestling instances, suggesting in 

 stances, generally useful instances, and magical instances. 

 The advantage, by which these instances excel the more 

 ordinary, regards specifically either theory or practice, or 

 both. With regard to theory, they assist either the senses or 

 the understanding; the senses, as in the five instances of the 

 lamp ; the understanding, either by expediting the exclu 

 sive mode of arriving at the form, as in solitary instances, 

 or by confining and more immediately indicating the affir 

 mative, as in the migrating, conspicuous, accompanying, 

 and subjunctive instances ; or by elevating the understand 

 ing and leading it to general and common natures, and that 

 either immediately, as in the clandestine and singular in 

 stances, and those of alliance ; or very nearly so, as in the 

 constitutive ; or still less so, as in the similar instances ; or 

 by correcting the understanding of its habits, as in the de 

 viating instances ; or by leading to the grand form or fabric 

 of the universe, as in the bordering instances ; or by guard 

 ing it from false forms and causes, as in those of the cross 

 and of divorce. With regard to practice, they either point it 

 out, or measure, or elevate it. They point it out, either by 

 showing where we must commence in order not to repeat 

 the labours of others, as in the instances of power ; or by 

 inducing us to aspire to that which may be possible, as 

 in the suggesting instances ; the four mathematical in 

 stances measure it. The generally useful and the magical 

 elevate it. 



Again, out of these twenty-seven instances, some must 

 be collected immediately, without waiting for a particular 

 investigation of properties. Such are the similar, singular, 

 deviating, and bordering instances, those of power, and of 

 the gate, and suggesting, generally useful, and magical 

 instances. For these either assist and cure the under 

 standing and senses, or furnish our general practice. The 

 remainder are to be collected when we finish our synoptical 

 tables for the work of the interpreter, upon any particular 

 nature. For these instances, honoured and gifted with such 

 prerogatives, are like the soul amid the vulgar crowd of in 

 stances, and (as we from the first observed) a few of them 



