THE MYSTERY OF NUMBERS PURSUED, AND CERTAIN CALCULATIONS GIVEN WHICH
MAY REMIND THE READER OF OTHER CALCULATIONS EQUALLY
CORRECT—ANAGRAMMATIZING OF NAMES, AND THE DOCTOR'S SUCCESS THEREIN.
“There is no efficacy in numbers, said the wiser Philosophers; and
very truly,”—saith Bishop Hacket in repeating this sentence; but he
continues,—“some numbers are apt to enforce a reverent esteem towards
them, by considering miraculous occurrences which fell out in _holy
Scripture_ on such and such a number.—_Non potest fortuitò fieri, quod
tam sæpe fit_, says Maldonatus whom I never find superstitious in this
matter. It falls out too often to be called contingent; and the
oftener it falls out, the more to be attended.”