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 1 Pref  |    arguments. As when one, with long study and great pains, patches
 2 Pref  |         too without offense, as long as this liberty does not
 3 Praise|       as they have drunk down a long forgetfulness, they wash
 4 Praise|        in no wise firm nor very long lived; that is to say, among
 5 Praise|        neither would the people long endure their governors,
 6 Praise|       any tale, though never so long, so it be of ghosts, spirits,
 7 Praise|  pleasure, plenty, good health, long life, lively old age, and
 8 Praise|      the Hellespont, Priapus—as long as the world in general
 9 Praise| everyone, for that would be too long, but only some few of the
10 Praise|         if he might but live so long till he could certainly
11 Praise|      the giddy multitude are so long divided to whether of the
12 Praise|          how much room, and how long time Christ lay in the Virgin’
13 Praise|         stretched out, the hair long and uncut, and have three
14 Praise|    their cowl, how many fingers long their hair, and how many
15 Praise|          whose loose plaits and long train fall round his Reverence’
16 Praise|     seem so strange if after so long and intimate an acquaintance
17 Praise|       in Lucian by having lived long among men became at last
18 Praise|         more. And therefore, as long as the soul uses the organs
19 Praise|       right manner it ought, so long it is said to be in good