. _:b6313871 "[1548], Joanne Hopper [i.e., John Hooper], \u201CCuriositie\u201D, in A Declaration of the Ten Holy C\u00F5maundementes of Allmygthye God\u00A0[\u2026], [Zurich]: [Christoph Froschauer], \u2192OCLC, page CCXVIII:"@en . . _:b6313877 "A second rescript followed, commanding all bishops not merely to subscribe the dominant opinions on these profound and abstruse topics, but to condemn their authors, Pelagius and C\u0153lestius, as irreclaimable heretics, and this under pain of deprivation and banishment."@en . _:b6313871 . _:b6313870 . _:b6313872 "1671, John Milton, \u201CSamson Agonistes,\u00A0[\u2026].\u201D, in Paradise Regain\u2019d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: [\u2026] J. M[acock] for John Starkey\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 65, line 75:"@en . _:b6313874 "1748, [David Hume], \u201CEssay I. Of the Different Species of Philosophy.\u201D, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: [\u2026] A[ndrew] Millar,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 3:"@en . . _:b6313870 "Difficult to comprehend or understand; obscure. [from mid 16th c.]"@en . _:b6313875 "The objects of geometrical enquiry are \u017Fo intirely ab\u017Fracted from tho\u017Fe pur\u017Fuits vvhich \u017Ftir up and put in motion the unruly pa\u017F\u017Fions of the human heart, that mankind vvithout difficulty adopt not only the more \u017Fimple theorems of the \u017Fcience, but even tho\u017Fe ab\u017Ftru\u017Fe paradoxes, vvhich hovvever they may appear \u017Fu\u017Fceptible of demon\u017Ftration, are at variance vvith the natural conceptions vvhich the mind, vvithout the aid of philo\u017Fophy, vvould be led to entertain upon the \u017Fubject."@en . . _:b6313874 "'Tis certain, that the ea\u017Fy and obvious Philo\u017Fophy vvill always, vvith the Generality of Mankind, have the Preference to the accurate and ab\u017Ftru\u017Fe; and by many vvill be recommended, not only as more agreeable, but more u\u017Feful than the other."@en . _:b6313876 "In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge, and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension."@en . . _:b6313873 "1729, John Machin, \u201CThe Laws of the Moon\u2019s Motion According to Gravity\u201D, in Isaac Newton, translated by Andrew Motte, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. [\u2026] , volume II, London: [\u2026] Benjamin Motte,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 4:"@en . . . _:b6313871 "Some time the good makithe an ile end\u2E1D \u00E3d the ile a godd. In this opini\u00F5\u2E1D and in \u017Fcrutable mi\u017Fterie be werithe all his wittes\u2E1D and at the end of his cogitacions\u2E1D fyndithe more ab\u017Ftru\u017Fe\u2E1D and doutfull obiections th\u1EBD at the beginning\u2E1D [\u2026]"@en . _:b6313872 "Be le\u017Fs ab\u017Ftru\u017Fe, my riddling days are pa\u017Ft."@en . . . _:b6313873 "Tho\u017Fe propo\u017Fitions relating to the Moon's motion, which are demon\u017Ftrated in the Principia [by Isaac Newton], do generally depend on calculations very intricate and ab\u017Ftru\u017Fe, the truth of which is not ea\u017Fily examined, even by tho\u017Fe that are mo\u017Ft skilful; [\u2026]"@en . _:b6313876 . "1" . _:b6313877 . _:b6313874 . _:b6313875 . _:b6313877 "1854, Henry Hart Milman, \u201CPelagianism\u201D, in History of Latin Christianity;\u00A0[\u2026], volume I, London: John Murray,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, book II, page 127:"@en . _:b6313872 . _:b6313876 "1831 October 30, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter IV, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 36:"@en . _:b6313873 . _:b6313875 "1788, Publius [pseudonym; Alexander Hamilton], \u201CNumber XXXI. The Same Subject Continued [Concerning Taxation].\u201D, in The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, [\u2026] , volume I, New York, N.Y.: [\u2026] J. and A. M\u2018Lean,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 191:"@en .