Book,  Chapter

 1    Ded         |          may, for all that, be as old as nature, and is certainly
 2   Read         |           Mr. Lowde places in his Old English Dictionary, I daresay
 3      I,  II    |         do not. And if one of the old philosophers had been asked,
 4      I,  II    |            or the authority of an old woman, may, by length of
 5      I,  III   |           seven, or seventy years old, whether a man, being a
 6      I,  III   |           learned, keeping to the old religion of China, and the
 7      I,  III   |         to call it pulling up the old foundations of knowledge
 8     II,  IX    |            Decay of perception in old age. But yet I cannot but
 9     II,  IX    |         Take one in whom decrepit old age has blotted out the
10     II,  X     |         grown men, makes both the old and young avoid painful
11     II,  XII   |         make new words, or to use old words in somewhat a new
12     II,  XIV   |         more; as the Egyptians of old, who in the time of Alexander
13     II,  XIV   |         the world 3,269,000 years old, or more; which longer duration
14     II,  XIV   |          world to be 50,000 years old, as 5639; and may as well
15     II,  XVII  |        years, without any body so old. It seems as easy to me
16     II,  XXI   |          that the philosophers of old did in vain inquire, whether
17     II,  XXII  |          though the killing of an old man be as fit in nature
18     II,  XXII  |            take up new and lay by old terms. Because change of
19     II,  XXV   |       seemingly positive terms of old, great, imperfect, &c.,
20     II,  XXVI  |     relative; such as are, young, old, &c., which include and
21     II,  XXVI  |        and when we denominate him old, we mean that his duration
22     II,  XXVI  |         very young at seven years old: but yet a horse we call
23     II,  XXVI  |           but yet a horse we call old at twenty, and a dog at
24     II,  XXVI  |   generations of men, we call not old, because we do not know
25     II,  XXVI  |     thereunto, call them young or old; which we cannot, therefore,
26     II,  XXVII |           from many others, of an old parrot he had in Brazil,
27     II,  XXVII |           he had heard of such an old parrot when he had been
28     II,  XXVII |           a very great and a very old one; and when it came first
29     II,  XXXIII|        there happened to stand an old trunk in the room where
30    III,  IX    |      language, so it was with the old ones when they were first
31    III,  IX    |         imposing our own sense of old authors. Sure I am that
32    III,  IX    | difficulty.~23. Especially of the Old and New Testament Scriptures.
33    III,  IX    |           and commentators on the Old and New Testament are but
34    III,  X     |     obscurity; by either applying old words to new and unusual
35    III,  X     |         since the philosophers of old, (the disputing and wrangling
36    III,  X     |    obscuring the signification of old ones, and so bringing all
37    III,  XI    |        novelty), or else must use old ones in a new signification:
38     IV,  XII   |          principle of some of the old philosophers, That all is
39     IV,  XVII  |       marshalling and ranging the old ones we have already. The
40     IV,  XIX   |       Thus we see the holy men of old, who had revelations from
41     IV,  XIX   |       found among the prophets of old, are enough to show that
42     IV,  XX    |           at forty or fifty years old he met with one of other
43     IV,  XX    |        himself at once of all his old opinions, and pretences
44     IV,  XX    |          themselves free with the old reply, Non persuadebis,