The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
