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the precipices bf igno- 

 rance. 



c From inability to 

 comprehend the all-en- 

 compafling beneficence 

 of his power. Hippar- 

 c ii us is an ignorant 

 clown, who wrings the 

 hands of vexation ; and 

 in the contemplation of 

 his exalted majefty, 

 Ptolemy- is a bat, who 

 can never arrive at the 

 fun of truth : The de- 

 monftrations of Eu- 

 clid are an imperfect 

 fketch of the forms of 

 his contrivance ; and 

 thoufands of Jemshed 

 Cashy, or Nuseer 

 Toosee, in this at- 

 tempt would labour in 

 vain. 



' But fince the well- 

 wifher of the works of 

 creation, and the ad- 

 miring fpectator of the 

 theatre of infinite wif- 

 dom and providence, 

 Serviti-Jegfing from the 

 firrt dawning of reafon 

 in his mind, and during 

 its progrefs towards ma- 

 turity, was entirely de- 

 voted to the ftudy of ma- 

 thematical fcience, and 

 the bent of his mind was 

 conftantly directed to 

 the folution of its moil 



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