He Warns The Heads Of

Law Is A Bottomless-pit, It Is A Cormorant, A Harpy, That Devours Every Thing.

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.

He Warns The Heads Of Parties Against Believing Their Own Lies.

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.

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.