He Warns The Heads Of Parties Against

The Mathematics Are Friends To Religion; Inasmuch As They Charm The Passions, Restrain The Impetuosity Of Imagination, And Purge The Mind From Error And Prejudice.

The Dumpling Is Indeed Of More Ancient Institution, And Of Foreign Origin; But Alas, What Were Those Dumplings? Nothing But A Few Lentils Sodden Together, Moisten'd And Cemented With A Little Seeth'd Fat.

The Reader May Here Observe The Force Of Numbers, Which Can Be Successfully Applied, Even To Those Things, Which One Would Imagine Are Subject To No Rules. There Are Very Few Things Which We Know, Which Are Not Capable Of Being Reduc'd To A Mathematical Reasoning, And When They Cannot, It's A Sign Our Knowledge Of Them Is Very Small And Confus'd; And Where A Mathematical Reasoning Can Be Had, It's As Great Folly To Make Use Of Any Other, As To Grope For A Thing In The Dark When You Have A Candle Standing By You.

When I Became Thoroughly Acquainted With The Greek And Roman Authors, I Thought It Incumbent Upon Me To Do Something Towards The Honor Of The Place Of My Nativity, And To Vindicate The Rhetoric Of This Ancient Forum Of Our Metropolis From The Aspersions Of The Illiterate By Composing A Treatise Of The Alercation Of The Ancients; Wherein I Have Demonstrated That The Purity, Sincerity, And Simplicity Of Their Diction Is Nowhere So Well Preserved As Amongst My Neighbourhood.

The Dumpling-eaters Are A Race Sprung Partly From The Old Epicurean And Partly From The Peripatetic Sect; They Were First Brought Into Britain By Julius Caesar; And Finding It A Land Of Plenty, They Wisely Resolved Never To Go Home Again.