Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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For he by geometric scale

Could take the size of pots of ale.

Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 121.

And wisely tell what hour o' the day

The clock does strike, by algebra.

Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 125.

Whatever sceptic could inquire for,

For every why he had a wherefore.[210:2]

Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 131.

Where entity and quiddity,