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1 Pref | delectable. And therefore, being satisfied that something 2 Pref | defense of it, for as much as being dedicated to you, it is 3 Praise| sight and your smelling. And being thus born, I did not begin 4 Praise| first, of all the gods? who being but one, yet bestow all 5 Praise| I pity its condition, in being present with it, and, as 6 Praise| difference between perishing and being another thing! But I restore 7 Praise| which they are so far from being ashamed, they rather pride 8 Praise| hideous clamor, till at last being wearied, he suffer himself 9 Praise| at this, that I myself, being a woman, and Folly too, 10 Praise| circumspect than needs, as being eagle-sighted into his friends’ 11 Praise| be thus deceived than by being troubled with jealousy not 12 Praise| confess, I speak foolishly, it being the greatest of all other 13 Praise| the number of men, there being nothing but his wisdom that 14 Praise| common life. But his master being in danger of his head, his 15 Praise| that famous patron, that being disturbed with the noise 16 Praise| speak of Theophrastus, who being about to make an oration, 17 Praise| abundant in everything? But yet being so ill-furnished with the 18 Praise| this were to spoil all, it being the only thing that entertains 19 Praise| the friendship of any man, being himself a friend to no man; 20 Praise| middle sort of fools, who, being a fool himself, may the 21 Praise| Brutus, that wise man Chiron, being offered immortality, chose 22 Praise| it; so far are they from being sensible of the least wearisomeness 23 Praise| people of the golden age, being wholly ignorant of everything 24 Praise| chance to be taken, and being shut up in cages endeavor 25 Praise| in a dunghill cock, who being but one had been yet everything, 26 Praise| happy that study wisdom, as being in this twice fools, that 27 Praise| with this kind of men, as being more propense by nature 28 Praise| admired, the greater number being ever tickled at the worst 29 Praise| and that wise man, who, being got loose from them, sees 30 Praise| epigram, but six hundred; as being ever hunger-starved and 31 Praise| opinion they have taken up of being learned; for whereas most 32 Praise| ordinary accounts; while being happy in their own opinion, 33 Praise| means of which it is, as being a discrete quantity, is 34 Praise| as to hiss them down, or, being furnished with the same 35 Praise| was not near so big when, being in labor with Pallas, he 36 Praise| treason to discover, unless, being got drunk, they have a mind 37 Praise| signs of the zodiac; or, being to preach of faith, ground 38 Praise| would have said scholar—that being in a famous assembly explaining 39 Praise| all the sight of his eyes being run into the sharpness of 40 Praise| was revived in him. He, being upon the point of unfolding 41 Praise| imposts, riches; for which, being enflamed with the love of 42 Praise| should boggle at perjury; or being taken in a lie, blush; or 43 Praise| fool walking by the way, being a fool himself, supposes 44 Praise| not relish their ears as being spoken with too much arrogance, 45 Praise| their very coat, they might, being in a manner naked, the more 46 Praise| better relieve this folly, being the wisdom of the Father, 47 Praise| from hence, that the mind, being somewhat at liberty from 48 Praise| Plato, happens to those that being cooped up in a cave stand 49 Praise| was wont, that the spirit, being less clogged with its bodily 50 Praise| by the highest mind, as being more powerful than infinite 51 Praise| in any respect, but that being stripped of himself, he 52 Praise| then perfected when souls being joined to their former bodies