4. They are all marks of some action or intimation of the mind.
Neither is it enough, for the explaining of these
words, to render them, as is usual in dictionaries, by words of another tongue which come nearest to their
signification: for what is meant by them is commonly as hard to be understood in one as another language. They
are all marks of some action or intimation of the mind; and therefore to understand them rightly, the several
views, postures, stands, turns, limitations, and exceptions, and several other thoughts of the mind, for which we
have either none or very deficient names, are diligently to be studied. Of these there is a great variety, much
exceeding the number of particles that most languages have to express them by: and therefore it is not to be
wondered that most of these particles have divers and sometimes almost opposite significations. In the Hebrew
tongue there is a particle consisting of but one single letter, of which there are reckoned up, as I remember,
seventy, I am sure above fifty, several significations.
