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Bishop Wilkins’s Ecclesiastes, p. 6. ‘A clear division,’ says Reybaz, ‘is the handle of a vase; in taking hold of which, everything it contains goes with it.’ ‘Method raises a lively and beautiful composure out of a chaos of complicated and disorderly materials; and from a disorderly concourse and dark confusion of ideas calls forth light, order, and harmony. This assigns to every part its proper magnitude, figure, and situation, with so much judgment, that all stand in need of one another, and each contributes gracefulness and strength to the whole. Three things are especially necessary—distinction of the parts—their mutual dependence on one another, and the perspicuity of the whole contexture.’ Sir Richard Blackmore’s Accomplished Preacher. 8vo. 1731.