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 1 4 |      has preceded was only the prelude of them. Why do I mention
 2 4 |       has ever yet uttered any prelude, or composed or published
 3 4 |     two parts, the law and the prelude of the law. The arbitrary
 4 6 |     law should have a suitable prelude.~Cleinias. You recollect
 5 6 |        be truly said by way of prelude about the duty of marriage.
 6 9 |   ought always to have a short prelude, we may speak to the criminal,
 7 9 |        is disobedient when the prelude is over, cry with a loud
 8 9 |    them. Let this be said as a prelude concerning crimes of violence
 9 9 |        and is made by the mere prelude to dread such a penalty,
10 9 | disobedient, who heeds not the prelude, shall have the law ready
11 10|   return to our laws, lest the prelude should become longer than
12 10|        be the best and noblest prelude of all our laws. And therefore,
13 10|      love their opposites, the prelude of our laws about impiety
14 10|  lawgiver.~Athenian. After the prelude shall follow a discourse,
15 11|     the law. And let us have a prelude about all this sort of roguery,
16 11| possibly help. Let this be our prelude and consolation to the living
17 11| wherefore let us make a common prelude on behalf of the lawgiver
18 11|        dishonour of parents, a prelude such as the following, about
19 11|     now been said. But if this prelude be an unmeaning sound in