Towards the beginning of the third year, which was in _August_, ninety-nine, my uncle _Toby_ found it necessary to understand a little of projectiles: --and having judged it best to draw his knowledge from the fountain-head, he began with _N. Tartaglia_, who it seems was the first man who detected the imposition of a cannon-ball's doing all that mischief under the notion of a right line --This _N. Tartaglia_ proved to my uncle _Toby_ to be an impossible thing.
----Endless is the search of Truth.

Towards the beginning of the third year, in 1699, my uncle Toby found it necessary to understand a little of projectiles. He began with Tartaglia, the first man who detected that a cannon-ball could not do its mischief along a right line. - This Tartaglia proved to be impossible.
- Endless is the search of Truth.
