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  1 Pref  |     ribaldry, but laid before you things rather ridiculous than dishonest.
  2 Pref  |           why do I run over these things to you, a person so excellent
  3 Praise|          afresh on the earth, all things immediately get a new face,
  4 Praise|    heretofore, so at present, all things sacred and profane are turned
  5 Praise|          leagues, laws, arts, all things light or serious—I want
  6 Praise|      Fortunate Islands, where all things grew without plowing or
  7 Praise|      beans, and such contemptible things would ever grow, but, on
  8 Praise|     counsels I have subjected all things to my dominion and erected
  9 Praise|           and wine and such other things as are for the common good
 10 Praise|           but one, yet bestow all things on all men. For first, what
 11 Praise|         so large an experience of things had joined an equal strength
 12 Praise|           the most unhappy of all things living, if he rightly understood
 13 Praise|          a man to be happy in all things. And to this purpose is
 14 Praise|     rather they should hear these things from Momus, from whom heretofore
 15 Praise|          to themselves “doing all things carelessly,” as says Father
 16 Praise|          this as well as in other things, they call me to counsel;
 17 Praise|       bushy beard, and such other things as speak plain old age in
 18 Praise|           The nature of all which things is such that the more of
 19 Praise|         the most desirable of all things, more necessary than either
 20 Praise|     anyone that dotes not in many things; and friendship, you know,
 21 Praise|           boy on his girl.” These things are not only done everywhere
 22 Praise|       torment himself but set all things in a hubbub!~In fine, I
 23 Praise|        you shall hear yet greater things. Will he, I pray, love anyone
 24 Praise|  forasmuch as Nature, in too many things rather a stepdame than a
 25 Praise|          in so great a variety of things has made all equal! Where
 26 Praise|       short go about any of those things without there is no living
 27 Praise|         wholly ignorant of common things and lives a course of life
 28 Praise|          ceremonies; most foolish things, and such as one Democritus
 29 Praise|     obstacles to the knowledge of things, modesty that casts a mist
 30 Praise|       consists in the judgment of things, hear me, I beseech you,
 31 Praise|        tis evident that all human things, like Alcibiades’ Sileni
 32 Praise|         of a beggar. Thus are all things represented by counterfeit,
 33 Praise|       mankind have deserved these things, or what angry god compelled
 34 Praise|       writing love letters. These things are laughed at as foolish,
 35 Praise|           have them to whom these things seem ridiculous to consider
 36 Praise| themselves.” Besides though these things may be subject to censure,
 37 Praise|     nature cut him short in other things. As if this had the least
 38 Praise|     effects, and hidden causes of things; as believing it a crime
 39 Praise|      Euripides, among whose other things there is extant that his
 40 Praise|             A fool speaks foolish things.” For whatever a fool has
 41 Praise|      should dare to speak to them things rather true than pleasant;
 42 Praise|       from me and is of all other things the most desirable; which
 43 Praise|           presented; yet in other things a man well enough, pleasant
 44 Praise|  undertake to change the forms of things and hunt all about after
 45 Praise|          this sentence, “In great things the very attempt is enough,”
 46 Praise|        are that are good for more things than one; but chiefly, the
 47 Praise|          should step up and speak things as they are, as, to live
 48 Praise|         ever tickled at the worst things, because, as I said before,
 49 Praise|        the English, besides other things, particularly challenge
 50 Praise|        more taken with words than things. They think truth is inconsistent
 51 Praise|        the most pernicious of all things, by means of which some
 52 Praise|           the happiness of men in things themselves, since it only
 53 Praise|         Christ himself. But these things are not for this place.~
 54 Praise|           than they that buy such things at vast rates, and yet perhaps
 55 Praise|        the shadows and figures of things, so they please themselves
 56 Praise|         got loose from them, sees things truly as they are? Whereas
 57 Praise|     humility and love of heavenly things, which is the true worship
 58 Praise|        Pythagoreans with whom all things are so common that if they
 59 Praise|          the most precious of all things. Add to this the waste of
 60 Praise|           wise men laugh at these things as foolish, as indeed they
 61 Praise|  formalities, and the like stuff; things so thin and bodiless that
 62 Praise|          that pretend to foretell things by the stars and make promises
 63 Praise|   promises of miracles beyond all things of soothsaying, and are
 64 Praise|           others as poor creeping things and could almost find in
 65 Praise|           wall and discover those things through the thickest darkness
 66 Praise|         Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence
 67 Praise|          for, and the evidence of things not seen,” he did not define
 68 Praise|        For who can conceive these things, unless he has spent at
 69 Praise|     injustice to require so great things of them that never heard
 70 Praise|       irreverently of such hidden things, rather to be adored than
 71 Praise|         happy while they do these things?~Then for what concerns
 72 Praise|    pleasant than that they do all things by rule and, as it were,
 73 Praise|        darker color, they put all things in combustion. And among
 74 Praise|        When they shall hear these things and see common ordinary
 75 Praise|      faces that they confound all things with noise! And yet this
 76 Praise|      women, though for many other things they favor this order, this
 77 Praise|       fortune of princes has many things attending it that are but
 78 Praise|        know how to speak pleasant things and not trouble them with
 79 Praise|          but for the study of the things themselves, they remit it
 80 Praise|    likewise imagine that the same things the other did are required
 81 Praise|           dispensers of spiritual things of which they must shortly
 82 Praise|          the poor apostles? These things, I say, did they but duly
 83 Praise|          religion, peace, and all things else quite topsy-turvy.
 84 Praise|           in their heads how many things are everywhere extant concerning
 85 Praise|           of nothing but heavenly things. Whereas on the contrary,
 86 Praise|         careless fellows that all things hit luckily to them?~You
 87 Praise|       lowest, and you’ll find all things done by money; which, as
 88 Praise|          Cicero gives of it! “All things are full of fools.” For
 89 Praise|         quoted before, viz., “All things are full of fools.” Again,
 90 Praise|         whatever they do in other things, herein at least to observe
 91 Praise|       dispute with Socrates. What things are more proper to be laid
 92 Praise|          so carefully lay up such things as you value and throw away
 93 Praise|           and when there are many things in St. Paul that thwart
 94 Praise|          they should take for the things of this life, was so far
 95 Praise|           hath chosen the foolish things of this world,” as well
 96 Praise|       mustard-seed, and sparrows, things senseless and inconsiderable,
 97 Praise|     ignorances.” You see what two things he pretends, to wit, youth,
 98 Praise|         with religious and sacred things than others, and to that
 99 Praise|          and wish death above all things; in short, they seem senseless
100 Praise|           take a view of or enjoy things as they truly are; and for
101 Praise|         such kind of men foretell things to come, understand tongues
102 Praise|      admiration at the shadows of things; and that fugitive who,
103 Praise|      again, told them he had seen things truly as they were, and
104 Praise|          men chiefly admire those things that are most corporeal
105 Praise|         with the contemplation of things invisible. For the one give
106 Praise|          most unchangeable of all things; and next him, yet on this
107 Praise|          meddle with any of these things, they do it carelessly and
108 Praise|          are also in each several things several degrees wherein
109 Praise|      minds is taken up with those things that are most repugnant
110 Praise|          rule do they measure all things else, so that they make
111 Praise|       contemptible, than of those things which they cannot see. But
112 Praise|         more intent upon heavenly things. In like manner, in the
113 Praise|         does a holy man fly those things that have any alliance with
114 Praise|           is wholly ravished with things eternal, invisible, and
115 Praise|      chiefest good that draws all things into itself. And this happiness
116 Praise|      together. So much better are things spiritual than things corporeal,
117 Praise|         are things spiritual than things corporeal, and things invisible
118 Praise|        than things corporeal, and things invisible than things visible;
119 Praise|         and things invisible than things visible; which doubtless
120 Praise|      madness; for they utter many things that do not hang together,