For many of them being compounded, the name occurs much easier than the complex idea itself, which requires time and attention to be recollected, and exactly represented to the mind, even in those men who have formerly been at the pains to do it; and is utterly impossible to be done by those who, though they have ready in their memory the greatest part of the common words of that language, yet perhaps never troubled themselves in all their lives to consider what precise ideas the most of them stood for. Some confused or obscure notions have served their turns;
Zeren, berauetako asko konposatuak direnez, izena asko errazago dator gogamenera, ideia konplexua bera baino, hau gogoratzeko eta gogamenean doi-doi irudikatzeko denbora eta arreta behar baitira, lehenago horretan ahalegindu direnen kasuan ere, inola ere ezin dutelarik hori egin, ordea, beste hauek, alegia, hizkuntza horretako hitz arruntik gehienak beren oroimenean ukan arren, beharbada euren bizitza osoan ere izenotako gehienek zehazki zein ideia ordezkatzen zuten pentsatzeko ardurarik hartu ez dutenek.