The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.