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Page 81 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to the wise man fair and happy havens.
Page 66 - the priests, as they were wont to do, and did eat and drink up all
Page 72 - would make the sufferer to be the water mixed with (and weakening) his own calamity. If Aristophanes meant this, he meant the whole phrase to be in ridicule of his tragic contemporaries. It is not likely that Sophocles and Aeschylus meant
Page 64 - The head, as the noblest part or the part chiefly affected, stands for the whole person in such phrases as
Page 72 - fruitful, bearing much good:' therefore why not of a fortune ' bearing much evil
Page vii - their shape, their health, and their activity, by preserving them from gouts,