...feems as evident, as that no Body who has conftder'd the Matter, can be abfolutely convinc'd, that the three Angles of a Triangle are not equal to two right ones. The Fool indeed, may have [aid in his Heart there is no Cod, i. <?. lewd and vicious Men may have heartily...

...there are no antipodes ; that eclipfes will not happen according to aftronomical obfervations ; that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right ones ; or, upon refufal, they may inflict punifhment at will. But will and power are often ufed unjuftly and unwifely....

...conquer. No man can deny that two and two make four 5 nor will any one think proper to affirm that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles. The fame may be faid of many things in politics, which may be proved with certitude approaching...

...God: if corrupt pretenders to Christianity, they may oblige one to say that Christianity is what it is not; and they may, - any of them, if they please,...Hobbes, who is a passionate advocate of arbitrary power, recommends this use of it in his Leviathan. But there seems not to be much justice or humanity,...

...though false, is yet not absurd, for there was a time when it was true. But the proposition that ' the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles, is not only false, but also involves in it an absurdity. 5. There is a difference also in their...

...though false, is yet not absurd ; for there was a time when it was true. But the proposition that ' the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles,' is not only false, but also involves in it an absurdity. 5. There is a difference also in...

...conclusively, to the satisfaction of nine different Keepers, who were learned even to bursting turgidity, that the three angles of a triangle, are not equal to two right angles, all the Mathesis from the days of Euclid to the present hour " to the contrary notwithstanding."...

...? As well may you tell the Arithmetician that two and two make eight,—tell the Mathematician that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles,—tell the Agriculturalist that any kind of soil will grow any kind of grain,—or the Politician...

...no consequence ; the opposite of it will always imply some fallacy. — Thus, the proposition, that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles, and other propositions, which are the opposite of what has been demonstrated, will always be...

...perception, hath no more power to withstand, or not to adopt, than it hath power to persuade itself that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles, after having once understood the position which demonstrates that they are so. And as demonstrable...