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who loTC and with thofe who hate ; in the company ot faints 

 or finners, is the fame. The Yogi coiillantly exercifeth the 

 fpirit in private. He is a rechile of a fiibdned mind, free 

 from hope, and free from perception. He planteth his own 

 feat firmly on a fpot that is undefiled, and fittetli upon the 

 facreU grafs, hifa, covered with a (k:n and a cloth. (Sec 

 KusA.) There he, whofe bul'inefs is the retraining of his 

 paflion, (hould fit, with his mind fixed on one objeft alone, 

 in the exercife of his devotion for the purification of his foul, 

 keeping his head, his neck, and body (toady, without mo- 

 tion, his eyes fixed on the point of his nofe, looking at no 

 other place around. To be a Saniafly, or reclnfe, without 

 application, is to obtain pain .ind troul)le. 



This divine difcipline is not to be attained by him who 

 eateth more than enough, or lefd than enough ; neither by 

 him who fleepeth too much, nor by him who Ikepeth not at 

 all. A man is called devout, when his mind remaincth thus 

 regulated within himfelf, and he is exempted from every luil 

 and inordinate dcfire. The Yogi of a fubducd mii'.d, thus 

 employed in the exercife of devotion, is compared to a lamp 

 ftandmg in a place without wind, whicli waveth not. He 

 becometh acquainted with that boundlels pleafure, which 

 is far more worthy of the underllanding than that which 

 arifes from the fenfes ; depending upon which, the mind 

 moveth not from its principles ; which having obtained, he 

 tefpefteth no other acquifition fo great as it ; on which de- 

 pending, he is not m'>ved by the fcvcrell pain. Supreme 

 happinefs attendeth the man whofe mind is thus at peace ; 

 whofe carnal affections and pafiions are thus iubdued ; who 

 is thus in God, and free from fin. The Yogi is more ex- 

 alted than the Tapafwi (fee Tapas) ; the zealot who ha- 

 raffes hinifelf in performing penances, he is refpecled above 

 the learned in fcience, and fuperior to thofe attached to 

 moral works. 



The above paflages from different pages of the Gita, may 

 ferve as a fpecimen of that extraordinary work ; fuppofed to 

 have been compofed by Vyafa, many centuries before the 

 Chridian era. See Vyasa, Jaina, Yati, and Yogi, for 

 feme farther notice of Hindoo penance and devotion ; and 

 Tapas, for inftances of their auilerity. 



Individuals calling themfelves SaniafTys and Yogis, are 

 ftill ff en wandering about India ; fometimes ftark-naked ; 

 rubbed over perhaps with afhes, efpecially if of the feft 

 of Saiva (which fee) ; the god Siva being reprefented fo 

 powdered. Sometimes they have, like him, a tiger's dun to 

 lit on : and at others, carry one of Viflinu's emblems, the 

 chakra, of which fee under Vishnu and Vajha. In the 

 latter cafe, the individuals are probably of the feftof Fat/h- 

 nava, which fee. . 



SECTA, in Law. See Suit. 



Secta Hundred. See Hundred Suit. 



Secta ad curiam, a writ which lieth againft him who 

 refufeth to perform his fuit to the county court, or court 

 baron. 



Secta curia. See Suit of Court. 



Secta faclcnda per lllam qua hahet tcnulam partem, a writ 

 to compel the heir that hath the elder's part among co-heirs, 

 to perform fervice for all the coparceners. 



S>Y.cT A. falda. See Faldage. 



Secta ad jujlltlam faclendam, is a fervice which a man is 

 bound to perform by his fee. 



Secta molendlnl, a writ lying where a man by ufage, time 

 out of mind, &c. has ground his corn at the mill of a cer- 

 tain perfon, and afterwards goes to another mill with his 

 corn, thereby withdrawing his fuit to tiie former. And 

 this writ lies efpecially for the lord againlt his tenants, who 

 hold of him to do fuit at his mill. This is now generally 

 turned into an adion of the cafe. 



Secta regalu, a fuit by which all perfont were bound 

 twice in a year to attend the (herifF's tourn, and was called 

 regalls, becaufe the flierifF's tourn was the king's leet ; 

 wherein the people were to be obliged by oath to bear true 

 allegiance to the king, &c. 



Secta unlca tantum faclenda pro plurlbui hxredltatllus, a 

 writ that lies for an heir who is dillrained by the lord to do 

 more fuits than one, in refpeft of the land of divers heirs 

 dcfcended to him. 



SECTILIA, among the Romans, pavements laid with 

 (lones cut into various forms. Suetonius diltinguifhes them 

 from thofe that were tefiellated. 



SECTINEUS, in Anatomy, a fmall, flat, and pretty long 

 mufcle, broad at the upper part, and narrow at the lower ; 

 fituated obliquely between the os pubis, and the upper part 

 of the OS femoris. 



It is commonly a fingle mufcle, but is fometimes found 

 double. It is fixed above by fie(hy fibres to all the (harp 

 ridges, or crifta, of tiie o; pubi?, and to a fmall part of the 

 oblong notch, or deprillion, on the f )refide of the crilta, in 

 vrhich the upper extremity of this muicle is lodged ; and 

 thence it runs down obliquely towards the little trochanter, 

 under, and a little behind which it is inferted obliquely by a 

 flat tendon, between the fuperior infertion of the vaftus in- la 

 terniis, and inferior infertion of the triceps fecundus, with I 

 which it is united. Winflow. 



SECTIO C.f:s.\itEA. See C^sarian SeBlon. 



SECTION, Sectio, formed iromfeco, I cut, a part of a j 

 thing divided : or the divifion itfelf. 



Such, particularly, are the fuhdivifions of chapters, by 

 others called paragraphs, and fometimes articles. The mark 

 of a feftion is §. 



The ancients negleiSed to divide their books into chapters 

 and fctlions : that was a ta(k left for future editors and critics. 



Section, in Geometry, denotes a fide or furface appearing 

 of a body, or figure, cut by another ; or the place wherein 

 lines, planes, &c. cut each other. 



The common (etlion of two planes is always a right line ; 

 being the line fuppofed to be drawn by the one plane in its 

 cutting or entering the other. 



If a fphere be cut in any manner, the plane of the feftion 

 will be a circle, whofe centre is in the diameter of the fphere. 



The feftions of the cone are five, ws. a circle, triangle, 

 parabola, hyperbida, and ellipfis. See each under its proper 

 article. See alfo Cone. 



Sections, Conic. See Conic Se3lons. 



Section, Axis of n Conic. See Axis. 



Section, Centre of a Cmk. See Center. 



Section, Diameter of a Conic. See Diameter. 



Section, Tangent of a C'jnlc. See Tan«ent. 



Sections, Follcwlng, SeHlones Sequentes, in Conies, may 

 be tlius conceived : fuppole two right lines, as A B, C D, 

 (Plate XIII. Analyfis, fig. 5.) mutually interfering one 

 another in E, which point E is fuppofed to be the common 

 centre of the oppofite hyperbolic fections F, G, H, I, and 

 whofe common afymptoles, the propofed hncs A B, C Di 

 alfo are. In this cafe, the fections G, F, and H, I, are 

 called fedlones fequentes ; becaufe they are placed following 

 one another in tiie contiguous angles of two interfering 

 right lines. 



If the determinate diameter, H G, of one of the fedlones 

 fequentes (which is coincident with the fuppofed indeter- 

 minate diameter of its oppofite) be equal to the vertical 

 tangent K L, apphed between the afymptotes in the point 

 G, of the diameter G F ; then Apollonius calls fuch fec- 

 tions, conjugate feSlons. See Genejis of the Hyperbola, under 

 Conic Sedlons. 



Sectwns, Oppofite. See Opposite. 



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