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great 76
great-grandfathers 1
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79 say
77 though
76 any
76 great
73 nothing
68 without
67 least
Erasmus
The praise of Folly

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1 Pref | often practiced even by great authors: when Homer, so 2 Pref | one, with long study and great pains, patches many pieces 3 Praise| and so what the otherwise great rhetoricians with their 4 Praise| more proper name can so great a goddess as Folly be known 5 Praise| mother. Nor do I envy to the great Jupiter the goat, his nurse, 6 Praise| me, that have retained so great a good and shut out so great 7 Praise| great a good and shut out so great an evil.~But why do I altogether 8 Praise| me. So provident has that great parent of mankind, Nature, 9 Praise| fellowship. If there can be any great entertainment without a 10 Praise| beginning and end of this so great good also? Nor shall I go 11 Praise| errors, add to this the great diversity of minds and studies, 12 Praise| care of Nature, that in so great a variety of things has 13 Praise| to say nothing that no great action was ever attempted 14 Praise| as a fly should make so great a buzz, he meddled not with 15 Praise| attempt it? Or Tully, that great founder of the Roman eloquence, 16 Praise| confess that wisdom is a great obstacle to the true management 17 Praise| score but that he was so great a philosopher. But admitting 18 Praise| to wit, by reason of the great diversity of their life 19 Praise| which kind of toys that great and powerful beast, the 20 Praise| this root sprang all the great acts of the heroes which 21 Praise| rightly understand of what great advantage it is to blush 22 Praise| not conceive a prince a great lord and abundant in everything? 23 Praise| should start up and cry, this great thing whom the world looks 24 Praise| not be amiss perhaps in so great an affair to call forth 25 Praise| doing: which though that great Stoic Seneca most strongly 26 Praise| torments of wit, and that so great that even grammar alone 27 Praise| any business, either so great or so small, but is managed 28 Praise| asses. These purchase their great lordships, while in the 29 Praise| not to the learned or the great, but the fool. Nor had that 30 Praise| calamity,” but often his great pattern of wisdom, Ulysses, “ 31 Praise| else that they are in so great request with princes that 32 Praise| passed over this life with a great deal of pleasantness and 33 Praise| such is the picture of this great wise man.~And here again 34 Praise| to pleasure, it brings a great delight not only to them 35 Praise| with this sentence, “In great things the very attempt 36 Praise| is not sufficient for so great an understanding.~And then 37 Praise| what happiness into how great troubles would he draw them?~ 38 Praise| depends upon opinion. For so great is the obscurity and variety 39 Praise| work as believing it some great master’s hand, were he not 40 Praise| he had bought them at a great rate. Or what difference, 41 Praise| but only some few of the great ones, from whence we shall 42 Praise| sleeping in a chimney corner. A great many undertake endless suits 43 Praise| innovations and another for some great he-knows-not-what. Another 44 Praise| never fully satisfied; at so great a rate do they purchase 45 Praise| few wise men be against so great a cloud of gainsayers?~But 46 Praise| glory which others with great pains have obtained to themselves; 47 Praise| as if he had done some great action, fancies himself 48 Praise| these are worthy of our great and illuminated divines, 49 Praise| to their own purpose, so great respect and honor do they 50 Praise| injustice to require so great things of them that never 51 Praise| syllogistical buttresses. And how great a happiness is this, think 52 Praise| whence we may conjecture the great prerogative of divines, 53 Praise| both titles, when both a great part of them are farthest 54 Praise| themselves.~And another great happiness they conceive 55 Praise| Christians. And of these, a great part build so much on their 56 Praise| too poor a reward for so great merit, little dreaming that 57 Praise| truly weigh with himself how great a burden lies upon his shoulders 58 Praise| all force imaginable? so great a profit would the access 59 Praise| be execrated, that those great princes of the Church and 60 Praise| otherwise when Fortune, the great directress of all human 61 Praise| has not been wanting even great authors that have made me 62 Praise| Muses from Helicon to so great a journey, especially in 63 Praise| And is it not a sign of great integrity to esteem every 64 Praise| with another? Nor was this great king ashamed of the name 65 Praise| man. Nor did Paul, that great doctor of the Gentiles, 66 Praise| But here I meet with a great noise of some that endeavor 67 Praise| with whom, by Jupiter! a great part of the learned had 68 Praise| for success in, when this great doctor (I had almost bolted 69 Praise| a doctor, answered in a great fume that Saint Paul had 70 Praise| consider this, that if so great doctors may be allowed this 71 Praise| You have heard from how great an author how great praises 72 Praise| how great an author how great praises of folly; and to 73 Praise| purpose is it that that great Architect of the World, 74 Praise| yet ’tis so near it that a great many men would judge it 75 Praise| For which cause there’s so great contrarity of opinion between 76 Praise| briefly show you that that great reward they so much fancy


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