I Believe The Calculation Of The Quantity

King Is A Title Which Translated Into Several Languages, Signifies A Magistrate With As Many Different Degrees Of Power As There Are Kingdoms In The World, And He Can Have No Power But What Is Given Him By Law; Yea, Even The Supreme Or Legislative Power Is Bound By The Rules Of Equity, To Govern By Laws Enacted, And Published In Due Form; For What Is Not Legal Is Arbitrary.

Law Is A Bottomless Pit.

Among The Innumerable Footsteps Of Divine Providence To Be Found In The Works Of Nature, There Is A Very Remarkable One To Be Observed In The Exact Balance That Is Maintained, Between The Numbers Of Men And Women; For By This Means It Is Provided, That The Species May Never Fail, Nor Perish, Since Every Male May Have Its Female, And Of A Proportionable Age.

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 Mathematics Are Friends To Religion, Inasmuch As They Charm The Passions, Restrain The Impetuosity Of The Imagination, And Purge The Mind From Error And Prejudice. Vice Is Error, Confusion, And False Reasoning; And All Truth Is More Or Less Opposite To It. Besides, Mathematical Studies May Serve For A Pleasant Entertainment For Those Hours Which Young Men Are Apt To Throw Away Upon Their Vices; The Delightfulness Of Them Being Such As To Make Solitude Not Only Easy, But Desirable.