I have heard generally that alderman Archer has a more prevailing and powerful influence in the commons than any other alderman, and exercises that influence;

There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.

comfortably recessed from curious impertinents

Although it can almost entirely be considered as a (finite) specialization of mathematical logic (with its two parts corresponding to the closed and, respectively, open first order formulae), its roots come also from the seminaïve algebraic theory of sets, relations and functions, as well as from the computational complexity, computer programming, formal languages, etc.