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 1      I, 2 |    deliberation are such as seem to present us with alternative possibilities:
 2      I, 2 |         which therefore we inquire, present us with alternative possibilities.
 3      I, 3 |        speaking, concerned with the present, since all men praise or
 4      I, 3 |             done in the past or the present, and since things which
 5      I, 4 |             must not attempt on the present occasion. For it does not
 6      I, 5 |           as marks of honour. For a present is not only the bestowal
 7      I, 5 | money-loving persons desire it. The present brings to both what they
 8      I, 5 |            of the body; but for our present purpose there is no use
 9      I, 8 |          the extent demanded by the present occasion; a detailed account
10      I, 9 |         sufficient account, for our present purpose, of virtue and vice
11      I, 11|         anything pleasant is either present and perceived, past and
12      I, 11|         expected, since we perceive present pleasures, remember past
13      I, 11|          when actually perceived as present, were pleasant, but also
14      I, 11|          expect are those that when present are felt to afford us either
15      I, 11|            delight us when they are present also do so, as a rule, when
16      I, 11|        memory and make him actually present to the eye of imagination.
17      I, 11|          resemblance and kinship is present particularly in the relation
18      I, 15|          oath that contradicts your present one, you must argue that
19      I, 15|           oath that contradicts his present one, you must say that if
20     II, 2 |      against those who slight their present distress. Thus a sick man
21     II, 6 |       regard to bad things, whether present, past, or future, which
22     II, 6 |          ourselves to blame for our present, past, or future circumstances,
23     II, 20|             cross. If therefore the present king seizes Egypt, he also
24     II, 23|             war is the cause of our present troubles, peace is what
25     II, 23|            the actual judges of the present question, or those whose
26     II, 23|           show that if the cause is present, the effect is present,
27     II, 23|           is present, the effect is present, and if absent, absent.
28     II, 25|            we must contend that the present case is dissimilar, or that
29    III, 1 |            of it which concerns our present subject, rhetoric. The other—
30    III, 8 |         least obtrusive of them. At present the same form of paean is
31    III, 14|            your opponents; or those present may be inclined to treat
32    III, 16|             by being represented as present. The Story told to Alcinous
33    III, 19|       except from something already present. The proper lines of argument