"The life of man is a perpetual flux of motion. All his thoughts, sentiments, and actions are in a continual succession, and never remain for any considerable time in the same state."

"And what surprize must we feel, when we find him a stupid mechanic, who imitated others, and copied an art, which, through a long succession of ages, after multiplied trials, mistakes, corrections, de…"

"The sceptic, therefore, still continues to reason and believe, even though he asserts that he cannot defend his reason by reasons."

"All human life must perish, were his principles to prevail. All discourse, all action would immediately cease, and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an e…"

"The elegant part of mankind, who are not addicted to the severer sciences, may here find entertainment, and perhaps instruction."