Logick

Four rhymes seem to be specially the property of schoolboys, being found in Accidences, Spellers, "Logick" Primers, and other school-books, down even to the present day.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

[a] A Polish writer, whose "Logick" was formerly held in great estimation in this country, as well as on the continent.

The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV 1750

Boyle wrote: besides the Demonstrations wont to be treated of in vulgar Logick, there are among Philosophers three distinct, whether kinds or degrees, of Demonstration.

Sticky Wants to Grab 2009

Logick, Hume and Mill on natural necessity, de Morgan,

The Sun Is Not 2009

Logick, or the Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth. 2nd edition.

The Sun Is Not 2009

Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him, — and, withal, he had so shrewd a guess at the weaknesses and passions of his respondent, — that Nature might have stood up and said, — ‘This man is eloquent.’ —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him, — and, withal, he had so shrewd a guess at the weaknesses and passions of his respondent, — that Nature might have stood up and said, — ‘This man is eloquent.’ —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

But the fitnes it hath for memorie, is notably prooved by all deliverie of Arts, wherein for the most part, from Grammer, to Logick, Mathematickes, Physick, and the rest, the Rules chiefly necessa [r] ie to be borne away, are compiled in verses.

Defence of Poesie 1992

-- I hope I shall not forget to purchase these Preceptors, and to make my Sons transcribe this Treatise on Logick entirely with their own Hands, in fair Characters, as soon as they can write, in order to imprint it on their Memories.

John Adams diary 17, 16 April - 14 June 1771 1961

I might study Mathematics, and Poetry and Rhetorick and Logick, as auxiliary Sciences and Arts, but my principal Attention should be directed at british Law, and roman and Grecian Antiquities.

John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961