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  1 pref,   0|   interpretation of Scripture which I think might with great advantage
  2 pref,   0|      secrets to others. These rules I propose to teach to those
  3 pref,   0|             withhold from me, while I write, the thoughts He is
  4 pref,   0|            this subject. But before I enter upon this undertaking,
  5 pref,   0|        enter upon this undertaking, I think it well to meet the
  6 pref,   0|             or who would do so, did I not conciliate them beforehand.
  7 pref,   0|              again, will think that I have spent my labour to
  8 pref,   0|         directions of the kind that I propose to lay down here,
  9 pref,   0|            down, my answer is, that I am not to be blamed for
 10 pref,   0|         some very obscure star, and I should point it out with
 11 pref,   0|          for those who, in the case I have imagined, are just
 12 pref,   0|           of their eyes. For though I can move my finger to point
 13 pref,   0|            see either the fact that I am pointing, or the object
 14 pref,   0|              or the object at which I point. ~
 15 pref,   0|            such directions as those I now propose to lay down,
 16 pref,   0|         think, therefore, that what I have undertaken to write
 17 pref,   0|            is entirely superfluous. I would such persons could
 18 pref,   0|          slave Christianus, of whom I have lately heard from very
 19 pref,   0|            these stories are false, I do not strongly insist on
 20 pref,   0|             insist on them. For, as I am dealing with Christians
 21 pref,   0|             they cannot blame me if I likewise teach not only
 22 pref,   0|          truth is of Him who says, "I am the truth." For what
 23 pref,   0|       possession of the rules which I here attempt to lay down,
 24 pref,   0|       objections, such is the start I have thought good to make
 25 pref,   0|            good to make on the road I am about to traverse in
 26   1      |                                BOOK I. - Containing a General
 27   1,   1 |      difficult to carry out, it is, I fear, presumptuous to enter
 28   1,   1 |            would undoubtedly be, if I were counting on my own
 29   1,   1 |           thoughts on this subject, I do not fear but that He
 30   1,   1 |            is yet wanting when once I have begun to use what He
 31   1,   1 |             to him shall be given." I He will give, then, to those
 32   1,   1 |          this work will, as soon as I begin to impart them to
 33   1,   1 |            of distribution in which I have engaged, so far from
 34   1,   1 |         incurring loss and poverty, I shall be made to rejoice
 35   1,   2 |           learnt by means of signs. I now use the word "thing"
 36   1,   2 |        hence may be understood what I call signs: those things,
 37   1,   2 |           between things and signs, I shall, when I speak of things,
 38   1,   2 |            and signs, I shall, when I speak of things, speak in
 39   1,   2 |          subject according to which I am to discuss things first
 40   1,   6 |                                Have I spoken of God, or uttered
 41   1,   6 |             in any worthy way? Nay, I feel that I have done nothing
 42   1,   6 |        worthy way? Nay, I feel that I have done nothing more than
 43   1,   6 |             desire to speak; and if I have said anything, it is
 44   1,   6 |            anything, it is not what I desired to say. How do I
 45   1,   6 |            I desired to say. How do I know this, except from the
 46   1,   6 |            is unspeakable? But what I have said, if it had been
 47   1,   9 |            about which he asks, how I know it? is unchangeably
 48   1,  30 |       Psalmist says in his prayer, "I behaved myself as though
 49   1,  31 |        Psalmist says most plainly, "I said to the LORD, Thou art
 50   1,  31 |         neither enjoys nor uses us, I am at a loss to discover
 51   1,  32 |        fullest sense of the words, "I AM THAT I AM," and "Thou
 52   1,  32 |            of the words, "I AM THAT I AM," and "Thou shalt say
 53   1,  32 |             Thou shalt say to them, I AM has sent me unto you;"
 54   1,  34 |         eternal life. For He says: "I am the way, and the truth,
 55   1,  36 |         Scripture. Nevertheless, as I was going to say, if his
 56   1,  39 |              So that in their case, I think, the saying is already
 57   1,  39 |             part perfect of course, I mean, so far as is possible
 58   1,  40 |             vain. For these reasons I have been anxious to speak
 59   1,  40 |         objects of faith, as far as I thought it necessary for
 60   1,  40 |           present book. In the next I shall discuss, as far as
 61   2,   1 |                             As when I was writing about things,
 62   2,   1 |           was writing about things, I introduced the subject with
 63   2,   1 |        something else, so now, when I come in its turn to discuss
 64   2,   1 |       discuss the subject of signs, I lay down this direction,
 65   2,   1 |            division of the subject, I could not altogether pass
 66   2,   2 |            this part of the subject I exclude from the scope of
 67   2,   3 |       themselves to the ear are, as I have said, more numerous,
 68   2,   3 |      thoughts consist of words. For I have been able to put into
 69   2,   3 |            various classes of which I have briefly touched upon,
 70   2,   3 |           briefly touched upon, but I could by no effort express
 71   2,   6 |          the thickest darkness. And I do not doubt that all this
 72   2,   6 |          difficulty. For why is it, I ask, that if any one says
 73   2,   6 |         their neighbour; how is it, I say, that if a man says
 74   2,   6 |            of this figure? And yet, I don't know why, I feel greater
 75   2,   6 |          And yet, I don't know why, I feel greater pleasure in
 76   2,   6 |        contemplating holy men, when I view them as the teeth of
 77   2,   6 |        greatest pleasure, too, that I recognize them under the
 78   2,   6 |                             But why I view them with greater delight
 79   2,   7 |           step, knowledge, of which I have now undertaken to treat.
 80   2,   7 |           on these two commandments I touched in the previous
 81   2,   7 |           in the previous book when I was treating about things.
 82   2,   8 |             for it is about it that I have set myself to speak
 83   2,   8 |            likely thing to happen), I think that in such a case
 84   2,   9 |          rule to be observed is, as I said, to know these books,
 85   2,   9 |             hope and love, of which I have spoken in the previous
 86   2,  11 |           tongue, of whom are those I have undertaken to instruct,
 87   2,  11 |              of which the other two I have mentioned are examples.
 88   2,  12 |        occur to one's mind. Whence, I think, that expression of
 89   2,  12 |           he says, "If by any means I may provoke to emulation
 90   2,  13 |           dwell in. Num. 13:19) And I am more disposed to think
 91   2,  14 |           ambiguous signs, however, I shall speak afterwards.
 92   2,  14 |             shall speak afterwards. I am treating at present of
 93   2,  15 |        these men have expressed it, I think we must give way to
 94   2,  15 |      Gentiles. But nevertheless, as I said above, a comparison
 95   2,  15 |           the Old Testament are, as I was about to say, to be
 96   2,  16 |           Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean". ~
 97   2,  16 |     mystical way. A candid mind, if I may so speak, cannot but
 98   2,  17 |            Varro refutes these, and I doubt whether any one can
 99   2,  17 |          says that a certain state (I don't recollect the name)
100   2,  22 |      heavenly bodies. For, although I may grant that it does produce
101   2,  23 |          devils and not to God; and I would not that ye should
102   2,  24 |          among the Latins; and when I say, lege, these two syllables
103   2,  26 |             as is required a matter I have spoken of above. To
104   2,  29 |         bodies. And of this species I have treated above, and
105   2,  29 |          for that kind of knowledge I have already set aside as
106   2,  29 |            the heavenly bodies. And I have stated what my views
107   2,  30 |        compel us, a matter on which I do not touch at present),
108   2,  31 |              the proposition, "What I am, you are not." The other
109   2,  31 |            the first speaker adds: "I am a man;" and when the
110   2,  31 |            arguments, Scripture, as I judge, expresses detestation
111   2,  32 |             rule that the reasoning I have quoted from the Apostle
112   2,  33 |            is arguing. And thus, as I said above, a false inference
113   2,  38 |          have their being; the man, I say, who acts in this way
114   2,  39 |                        Accordingly, I think that it is well to
115   2,  39 |   intercourse with those around us. I think, however, there is
116   2,  39 |           for their solution; what, I say, these men have done
117   2,  39 |             of knowledge, the same, I think, might be done in
118   2,  39 |          have been done already (as I have found that many things
119   2,  39 |         have found that many things I had no notion of have been
120   2,  39 |           sight by the envious. And I am not sure whether the
121   2,  39 |        ambiguous passages, of which I shall speak hereafter, than
122   2,  39 |            unknown signs, the topic I am now discussing. ~
123   2,  40 |          what happens now. And this I say without prejudice to
124   2,  41 |     Scriptures, prepared in the way I have indicated, shall enter
125   2,  41 |            and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take
126   2,  41 |           you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart:
127   2,  41 |             the psalmist says, "and I shall be clean; wash me,
128   2,  41 |        shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
129   2,  42 |          Scripture. And about these I shall now, in a third book,
130   3,   1 |          astray by ambiguous signs, I so far as I can give him
131   3,   1 |        ambiguous signs, I so far as I can give him instruction (
132   3,   1 |          shall laugh at the methods I am going to point out as
133   3,   1 |           as childish), but yet, as I was going to say, so far
134   3,   1 |             going to say, so far as I can give instruction, let
135   3,   1 |         metaphorical, classes which I have already described in
136   3,   2 |            the Church, and of which I treated at sufficient length
137   3,   2 |           at sufficient length when I was speaking in the first
138   3,   2 |             the apostle says: "What I shall choose I wot not:
139   3,   2 |          says: "What I shall choose I wot not: for I am in a strait
140   3,   2 |         shall choose I wot not: for I am in a strait betwixt two,
141   3,   2 |         compellor autem ex duobus" [I am in a strait betwixt two];
142   3,   2 |    compellor autem ex duobus" [what I shall choose I wot not:
143   3,   2 |        duobus" [what I shall choose I wot not: for I am in a strait
144   3,   2 |         shall choose I wot not: for I am in a strait betwixt two];
145   3,   3 |             all the directions that I have given about ambiguous
146   3,   3 |          with doubt and hesitation, I do not see how a difference
147   3,   3 |         speech of the educated. For I would rather have the barbarism, "
148   3,   3 |          the apostle, "Of the which I tell you before [praedico],
149   3,   3 |           you before [praedico], as I have also told you in time
150   3,   3 |            only said, "Of the which I tell you before [quae praedico
151   3,   3 |              and had not added, "as I have also told you in time
152   3,   4 |            where the apostle says, "I protest by your rejoicing [
153   3,   4 |          per vestram gloriam] which I have in Christ Jesus our
154   3,   4 |           in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily." For one translator
155   3,   5 |     metaphorical words, about which I am next to speak, demand
156   3,   7 |             of theirs, who says, if I recollect aright, "Thou,
157   3,   7 |         knows the gospel knows what I mean. What profit is it
158   3,   7 |           indeed the result be that I worship neither? For any
159   3,   7 |            to me as the wide ocean. I grant, however, that they
160   3,  10 |                                     I mean by charity that affection
161   3,  10 |       subordination to God; by lust I mean that affection of the
162   3,  11 |        addressed to Jeremiah, "See, I have this day set thee over
163   3,  11 |           to be referred to the end I have spoken of. ~
164   3,  14 |            who were half asleep (as I may say) that is, who were
165   3,  14 |             do ye even so to them," I cannot be altered by any
166   3,  18 |             one wife with lust. And I look with greater approval
167   3,  18 |         assuredly those men of whom I speak knew that wantonness
168   3,  18 |             Lord. Thou knowest that I take not this my sister
169   3,  25 |           leaven of the Pharisees," I and in a good sense, as
170   3,  25 |           is used in a good sense, "I am the living bread which
171   3,  25 |            other case. The examples I have adduced are indeed
172   3,  29 |                           Moreover, I would have learned men to
173   3,  29 |             lest it might seem that I was teaching grammar. I
174   3,  29 |             I was teaching grammar. I certainly advise, however,
175   3,  29 |          elsewhere, although indeed I have already given that
176   3,  29 |           second book namely, where I treated of the necessary
177   3,  30 |            things that occur to me, I consider none so necessary
178   3,  30 |             of rules be received as I communicate it, without
179   3,  30 |             false expectations. And I have thought it right to
180   3,  30 |     advances as a Donatist. And now I shall briefly indicate what
181   3,  32 |            in the Song of Solomon, "I am black, but comely, as
182   3,  32 |       Solomon." For it is not said, I *was* black as the tents
183   3,  32 |           good part of the Church, "I will bring the blind by
184   3,  32 |             way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths
185   3,  32 |           that they have not known; I will make darkness light
186   3,  32 |         straight: these things will I do unto them, and not forsake
187   3,  33 |           letter, which is the name I made use of when writing
188   3,  33 |       besides which prove this. But I am not now treating of this
189   3,  33 |          treating of this doctrine. I have, however, dealt with
190   3,  34 |            removed woman. Wherefore I poured my fury upon them
191   3,  34 |           they had polluted it: and I scattered them among the
192   3,  34 |          according to their doings, I judged them." Now it is
193   3,  34 |         prophet begins to say, "And I will sanctify my great name,
194   3,  34 |             heathen shall know that I am the Lord," the reader
195   3,  34 |             he goes on to say: "And I shall be sanctified in you
196   3,  34 |          you before their eyes. For I will take you from among
197   3,  34 |            your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon
198   3,  34 |           from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart
199   3,  34 |          you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit
200   3,  34 |          you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will
201   3,  34 |          will I put within you; and I will take away the stony
202   3,  34 |         heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of
203   3,  34 |           you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within
204   3,  34 |        shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and
205   3,  34 |             shall be my people, and I will be your God. I will
206   3,  34 |             and I will be your God. I will also save you from
207   3,  34 |               A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit
208   3,  34 |          you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will
209   3,  34 |          will I put within you; and I will take away the stony
210   3,  34 |        heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of
211   3,  34 |            to take this saying "And I will bring you into your
212   3,  34 |        shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers," not
213   3,  35 |           Seven times in the day do I praise Thee," means just
214   3,  37 |          case of proper words which I discussed above, and in
215   3,  37 |            be understood, and which I have just finished speaking
216   3,  37 |     finished speaking of as much as I thought enough, students
217   3,  37 |            far as relates to words, I have now said enough. It
218   4,   1 |           after a preface, in which I answered by anticipation
219   4,   1 |         take exception to the work, I said, "There are two things
220   4,   1 |             when it is ascertained. I shall treat first of the
221   4,   1 |             the meaning." As, then, I have already said a great
222   4,   1 |            one part of the subject, I shall only say a few things
223   4,   1 |           In the first place, then, I wish by this preamble to
224   4,   1 |          readers who may think that I am about to lay down rules
225   4,   1 |           rules of rhetoric such as I have learnt, and taught
226   4,   1 |          any such from me. Not that I think such rules of no use,
227   4,   3 |            men of slower intellect, I do not think it of so much
228   4,   3 |           rules themselves. Indeed, I think there are scarcely
229   4,   4 |                 And all the methods I have mentioned are constantly
230   4,   5 |           and spirit, the work that I am speaking of ought to
231   4,   5 |             knowledge of Scripture; I do not mean by reading them
232   4,   5 |         service if he can do both), I would rather send him to
233   4,   6 |           easily settled. For where I understand these writers,
234   4,   6 |           can be more eloquent. And I venture to affirm that all
235   4,   6 |         below them. Where, however, I do not understand these
236   4,   6 |    eloquence is then less apparent, I have no doubt but that it
237   4,   6 |            of the same kind as that I do understand. The very
238   4,   6 |                                     I could, however, if I had
239   4,   6 |                I could, however, if I had time, show those men
240   4,   6 |         delight in their eloquence; I am more struck with admiration
241   4,   7 |             unlearnedly learned (if I may use the expression)
242   4,   7 |           art of elocution. As then I do not affirm that the apostle
243   4,   7 |          the rules of eloquence, so I do not deny that his wisdom
244   4,   7 |           when it comes after him. "I say again," he says, "Let
245   4,   7 |             a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
246   4,   7 |         myself a little. That which I speak, I speak it not after
247   4,   7 |         little. That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord,
248   4,   7 |         many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. For ye
249   4,   7 |          man smite you on the face. I speak as concerning reproach,
250   4,   7 |          whereinsoever any is bold (I speak foolishly), I am bold
251   4,   7 |           bold (I speak foolishly), I am bold also. Are they Hebrews?
252   4,   7 |             Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so
253   4,   7 |          Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham?
254   4,   7 |          the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (
255   4,   7 |          they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool), I am more:
256   4,   7 |        Christ? (I speak as a fool), I am more: in labours more
257   4,   7 |            Jews five times received I forty stripes save one,
258   4,   7 |        stripes save one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was
259   4,   7 |          beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered
260   4,   7 |           once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night
261   4,   7 |        shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; in
262   4,   7 |          churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended,
263   4,   7 |          weak? who is offended, and I burn not? If I must needs
264   4,   7 |        offended, and I burn not? If I must needs glory, I will
265   4,   7 |              If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things
266   4,   7 |        clauses and periods of which I spoke a short time ago,
267   4,   7 |           For, from the place where I commenced to quote, the
268   4,   7 |           though it may have more: "I say again, let no man think
269   4,   7 |             a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little."
270   4,   7 |           four members: "That which I speak, I speak it not after
271   4,   7 |       members: "That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord,
272   4,   7 |         many glory after the flesh, I will glory also." And the
273   4,   7 |          man smite you on the face. I speak as concerning reproach,
274   4,   7 |          whereinsoever any is bold (I speak foolishly), I am bold
275   4,   7 |           bold (I speak foolishly), I am bold also." After this,
276   4,   7 |             Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so
277   4,   7 |          Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham?
278   4,   7 |          the seed of Abraham? so am I." But a fourth section being
279   4,   7 |           the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool.) I am more."
280   4,   7 |        Christ? (I speak as a fool.) I am more." Then the next
281   4,   7 |        joined the second, "received I forty stripes save one."
282   4,   7 |           are set down: "Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was
283   4,   7 |          beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered
284   4,   7 |           once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck." Next
285   4,   7 |          clause: "a night and a day I have been in the deep."
286   4,   7 |          inquiry: "Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended,
287   4,   7 |          weak? who is offended, and I burn not?" In fine, this
288   4,   7 |          period of two members: "If I must needs glory, I will
289   4,   7 |              If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things
290   4,   7 |      concern mine infirmities." And I cannot sufficiently express
291   4,   7 |          for evermore, knoweth that I lie not." And then he tells,
292   4,   7 |             Holy Scripture. Suppose I had taken the further trouble,
293   4,   7 |           in regard to the passages I have quoted from the apostle'
294   4,   7 |             serious men would think I had gone too far, than that
295   4,   7 |            the studious would think I had done enough? All these
296   4,   7 |            them magniloquently. And I fear lest I too should smack
297   4,   7 |     magniloquently. And I fear lest I too should smack of that
298   4,   7 |           some one is thinking that I have selected the Apostle
299   4,   7 |           For when he says, "Though I be rude in speech, yet not
300   4,   7 |             truth. If he had said, "I am indeed rude in speech,
301   4,   7 |                                     I see, then, that I must say
302   4,   7 |                   I see, then, that I must say something about
303   4,   7 |         passage of such a kind that I shall not be compelled to
304   4,   7 |           to commend the style. And I shall do so, quoting principally
305   4,   7 |      prophesy to the people of God. I shall not, however, follow
306   4,   7 |             their translation;) but I shall follow the translation
307   4,   7 |        return he made. And, indeed, I do not know whether this
308   4,   7 |         laid down in that art which I learnt and used to teach.
309   4,   7 |         found in this passage which I have chosen as an example.
310   4,   8 |                        But although I take some examples of eloquence
311   4,  10 | conventicula eorum de sanguinibus" (I shall not assemble their
312   4,  10 |             of it he is taught. But I am not now treating of the
313   4,  10 |            mode of giving pleasure. I am speaking of the mode
314   4,  12 |           to be feared and shunned. I need not go over all the
315   4,  14 |             have it so. God forbid, I say, that with us there
316   4,  14 |         spoken of when it is said, "I will praise Thee among much
317   4,  14 |             blessed Cyprian, which, I think, came there by accident,
318   4,  18 |                      Now the author I have quoted could have exemplified
319   4,  18 |             that an address such as I wish to give shape to is
320   4,  18 |             esteemed in the Church. I speak to your shame. Is
321   4,  20 |            reasons thus: "Brethren, I speak after the manner of
322   4,  20 |           which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant,
323   4,  20 |       sisters." And also in these: "I beseech you, therefore,
324   4,  20 |                        And, indeed, I must confess that our authors
325   4,  20 |         translators, or whether, as I am more inclined to believe,
326   4,  20 |             avoided such ornaments, I dare not affirm; for I confess
327   4,  20 |              I dare not affirm; for I confess I do not know. This
328   4,  20 |           not affirm; for I confess I do not know. This I know,
329   4,  20 |         confess I do not know. This I know, however, that if any
330   4,  20 |           these in his translation. I, however (to speak of my
331   4,  20 |             others is to me), while I do not in my own speech,
332   4,  20 |            speech, however modestly I think it done, neglect these
333   4,  20 |      through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither
334   4,  20 |       months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I
335   4,  20 |            I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour
336   4,  20 |           labour in vain. Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am;
337   4,  20 |      Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are:
338   4,  20 |        beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not
339   4,  20 |             infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel unto
340   4,  20 |        blessedness ye spake of? For I bear you record, that, if
341   4,  20 |           have given them to me. Am I therefore become your enemy,
342   4,  20 |          become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? They
343   4,  20 |            thing, and not only when I am preset with you. My little
344   4,  20 |            little children, of whom I travail in birth again until
345   4,  20 |            Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with
346   4,  20 |             to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you".
347   4,  21 |         wine. For, as Christ says, 'I am the true vine,' it follows
348   4,  21 |         Whence also the Lord says, 'I am come to send fire on
349   4,  21 |            on the outside. Why need I detail her sparingness in
350   4,  21 |          minister to appetite." Now I have cited these latter
351   4,  21 |                                 But I shall select examples of
352   4,  21 |             the colour of thy hair: I would that, with a prophetic
353   4,  21 |           It is sufficiently clear, I think, that this eloquence
354   4,  21 |           in these two authors whom I have selected as specimens
355   4,  23 |        style; for example, when, as I have said, a knotty question
356   4,  24 |             Caesarean in Mauritania I was dissuading the people
357   4,  24 |       killing whomsoever he could), I strove with all the vehemence
358   4,  24 |            vehemence of speech that I could command to root out
359   4,  24 |           it was not, however, when I heard their applause, but
360   4,  24 |            their applause, but when I saw their tears, that I
361   4,  24 |             I saw their tears, that I thought I had produced an
362   4,  24 |         their tears, that I thought I had produced an effect.
363   4,  24 |         they were subdued. And when I saw their tears I was confident,
364   4,  24 |          And when I saw their tears I was confident, even before
365   4,  24 |         that my sermon was finished I called upon them with heart
366   4,  24 |            many other cases besides I have observed that men show
367   4,  26 |             to the three conditions I laid down a little while
368   4,  27 |         Himself, before saying what I have just quoted about men
369   4,  31 |            to a greater length than I expected or desired. But
370   4,  31 |             complain of its length. I, however, give thanks to
371   4,  31 |            with what little ability I possess I have in these
372   4,  31 |            little ability I possess I have in these four books
373   4,  31 |         depict, not the sort of man I am myself (for my defects