Mathematical Knowledge Adds A Manly Vigour To

Almighty Power, By Whose Most Wise Command, Helpless, Forlorn, Uncertain, Here I Stand, Take This Faint Glimmer Of Thyself Away, Or Break Into My Soul With Perfect Day!

Hocus Was An Old Cunning Attorney. The Words Of Consecration, "hoc Est Corpus," Were Travestied Into A Nickname For Jugglery, As "hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History Of The English People, 1874. See Charles Macklin.

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.

It Is Impossible For A Die, With Such Determined Force And Direction Which Makes It Fall On Such A Determined Side, Only I Don't Know The Force And Direction Which Makes It Fall On Such A Determin'd Side, And Therefore I Call That Chance, Which Is Nothing, But Want Of Art.

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.