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1 Pref | myself something of our common studies, and other while 2 Pref | witty reflections on the common errors of mankind, and that 3 Praise| other things as are for the common good of mankind, why am 4 Praise| of the gods, and like a common stage player put on a disguise 5 Praise| be no more than what is common with him and goats; yet 6 Praise| railed against it to the common people to no other end but 7 Praise| a man?—according to that common proverb, “I do not like 8 Praise| of whom there goes this common saying, “That age, which 9 Praise| how powerful reason is let common experience declare, inasmuch 10 Praise| myself, and that too for the common pleasure of mankind. The 11 Praise| unapt they are even for common converse, let Socrates, 12 Praise| anything that concerned common life. But his master being 13 Praise| apt to discharge even the common offices of life. Invite 14 Praise| he is wholly ignorant of common things and lives a course 15 Praise| What was it that, when the common people of Rome were like 16 Praise| wits? But nothing is more common with them than such changes; 17 Praise| undertakes to disprove a common received opinion. Whereas 18 Praise| man, void of all sense and common feeling of humanity. And 19 Praise| all sense of nature and common affections, and no more 20 Praise| without a portion, is so common that men almost expect to 21 Praise| instructed, nay such is the common condition of us all. And 22 Praise| esteem that come nearest to common sense, that is to say, folly. 23 Praise| and that not only by the common people but even the professors 24 Praise| Virgin Mother, to whom the common people do in a manner attribute 25 Praise| there without it, a kind of common self-love. And hence is 26 Praise| next, that they enjoy it in common. And the possession of no 27 Praise| it to say anything of the common people, who without dispute 28 Praise| with whom all things are so common that if they get anything 29 Praise| follies and madnesses of the common people. I’ll betake me to 30 Praise| they are applauded by the common people, pointed at in a 31 Praise| their subject.~But these are common and threadbare; these are 32 Praise| those too so contrary to common opinion that those oracles 33 Praise| hear these things and see common ordinary persons preferred 34 Praise| had learned it from our common tumblers, though yet they 35 Praise| interest; study nothing but the common good; and not in the least 36 Praise| they may be secure of the common people. And now suppose 37 Praise| a battle.~And as to the common herd of priests, they account 38 Praise| wherewith they may fright the common people and convince them, 39 Praise| wont. But this they have in common with those of the heathens, 40 Praise| all study of piety to the common people. In like manner the 41 Praise| people. In like manner the common people put it over to those 42 Praise| precious, or such as are common and of no account? Why do 43 Praise| instance? As if it were not the common privilege of divines to 44 Praise| they seem senseless to common understanding, as if their 45 Praise| the organs, then, by the common consent of every man, ’tis 46 Praise| company. In like manner the common sort of men chiefly admire 47 Praise| brutish and stupid in the common use of them. Whereas on 48 Praise| enmity, and contrary, the common people think there’s no 49 Praise| friends, and to which the common people attribute no small 50 Praise| abstain from eating, which the common people take for an absolute 51 Praise| Whereas on the contrary, the common people think there’s no 52 Praise| those holy men than the common people: which yet will be 53 Praise| what’s the meaning of those common sayings, “He does not dwell