Book, Chapter

 1     6, 12-21| greatness of spirit I was far short; and bound with the disease
 2    10, 11-18|    know which were I for some short space of time to cease to
 3    11, 15-18|     say, "a long time" and "a short time"; still, only of time
 4    11, 15-18|    hundred years hence. But a short time past, we call (suppose)
 5    11, 15-18|       often days since; and a short time to come, often days
 6    11, 15-18|    what sense is that long or short, which is not? For the past,
 7    11, 22-28|    double time to that single short syllable." These words we
 8    11, 23-29|       words be some syllables short, others long, but because
 9    11, 23-30|     another there were but so short a stay, as one hour comes
10    11, 26-33|     we seem by the space of a short syllable, to measure the
11    11, 26-33|      of long, by the space of short syllables; not measuring
12    11, 26-33|  syllable because double to a short one. But neither do we this
13    11, 27-34|      may be said how long, or short it is; nor can it be called
14    11, 27-35|  syllables alternates between short and long syllables. The
15    11, 27-35|      long syllables. The four short then, the first, third,
16    11, 27-35|  measure a long syllable by a short, and I sensibly find it
17    11, 27-35|       other, if the former be short, the latter long, how shall
18    11, 27-35|        how shall I detain the short one, and how, measuring,
19    11, 27-35|    begin to sound, unless the short leaves sounding? And that
20    11, 27-35|       I measure? where is the short syllable by which I measure?
21    13, 18-23|  stars, inasmuch as they come short of that brightness of wisdom,