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Law is a bottomless pit.
John Arbuthnot / Physician
Law
Lawyer
Pits
Bottomless
Pit
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
John Arbuthnot / Physician
Science
Biographies
Terror
Biography
Terrors
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Unjust force can never give any just dominion.
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Dominion
Giving
Unjust
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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
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Lying
Party
Political
Swallowing
Die
Last
Lies
Parties
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He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
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Believe
Lying
Party
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John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.
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Science
Biographies
Pairs
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To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.
John Arbuthnot / Physician
Bliss
Desire
Soul
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
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Science
Law
Pits
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O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.
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Truth
Rays
Way
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He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
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Agriculture
Harvest
Hungry
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Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.
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Truth
Eye
Understanding
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Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
John Arbuthnot / Physician
Apologizing
Happy Life
Secret
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Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
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Knowledge
Science
Math
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Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.
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Advantage
Enemy
True Religion
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Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
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Men
May
Vices
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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.
John Arbuthnot / Physician
God
Faith
Hope
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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!
John Arbuthnot / Physician
Wise
Perfect Days
Prayer
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The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.
John Arbuthnot / Physician
Care
Cities
Together
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What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.
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Exercise
Mind
Purpose
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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.
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Ancient
Littles
Together
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All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.
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Politics
Analysis
World
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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.
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Historical
Nicknames
People
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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.
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Home
Land
Race
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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.
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Art
Science
Fall
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I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great many events which are accidental, besides those of games; only these cases would be infinitely more confused, as depending on chances which the most part of men are ignorant of.
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Men
Believe
Confused
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It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.
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Men
Sports
Pieces
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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.
John Arbuthnot / Physician
Men
Mean
Numbers
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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.
John Arbuthnot / Physician
Kings
Arbitrary
Law
World
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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.
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Greek
Honor
Simplicity
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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.
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Men
Science
Passion
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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.
John Arbuthnot / Physician
Knowledge
Success
Dark
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