He can make matter think, said the Nosarians. As certainly as you can make a velvet cap out of a sow's ear, replied the Antinosarians. He can make two and two five, replied the Popish doctors. It extends only to all possible things, replied the Lutherans . By God in heaven, cried the Popish doctors, he can make a nose, if he thinks fit, as big as the steeple of Strasburg .
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
In all my ten tales, in all my ten de- cads, have I, Slawkenbergius , tied down every tale of them as tightly to this rule, as I have done this of the stranger and his nose.