3. They show what relation the mind gives to its own thoughts.
This part of grammar has been perhaps as much
neglected as some others over-diligently cultivated. It is easy for men to write, one after another, of cases and
genders, moods and tenses, gerunds and supines: in these and the like there has been great diligence used; and
particles themselves, in some languages, have been, with great show of exactness, ranked into their several orders.
But though prepositions and conjunctions, etc., are names well known in grammar, and the particles contained
under them carefully ranked into their distinct subdivisions; yet he who would show the right use of particles, and
what significancy and force they have, must take a little more pains, enter into his own thoughts, and observe
nicely the several postures of his mind in discoursing.
