Another, when men make a name of two names, whose significations are contradictory and inconsistent; as this name, an “incorporeal body,” or, which is all one, an “incorporeal substance,” and a great number more. For whensoever any affirmation is false, the two names of which it is composed, put together and made one, signify nothing at all. For example, if it be a false affirmation to say “a quadrangle is round,” the word “round quadrangle” signifies nothing, but is a mere sound. So likewise, if it be false to say that virtue can be poured, or blown up and down, the words “inpoured virtue,” “inblown virtue,” are as absurd and insignificant as a “round quadrangle.” And therefore you shall hardly meet with a senseless and insignificant word, that is not made up of some Latin or Greek names. A Frenchman seldom hears our Saviour called by the name of parole , but by the name of verbe often; yet verbe and parole differ no more, but that one is Latin, the other French.
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