To what purpose is all this prelude of yours, to introduce to me somebody, who, by her likeness to my daughter, may expose me to your scoff and raillery?
But to what purpose then," says I, "is your praying to him, if their prayers will serve your turn?
Nasgig, "to what purpose should I relate so sacred a prediction to one who, though the most concerned in it, makes such a jest of it?
To what purposeelse is it revealed, made mention of, and commended to us?
I ask, What should it do there before, or to what purpose is it there, if it be not acted?
For to what purpose is it to shine forth, if there be no eye to see?
Now to what purpose is all this spoken of God’s decrees and purposes, which he hath called a secret belonging to himself?
For to what purpose should a man desire, or what fruits will desire bring him whose desires shall not be granted?
I was going to roar out to him that we were adrift, but he looked so imbecile that I thought, to what purpose?
I might have contrived some arrangement of booms and casks to serve as a raft, but to what purpose?
There were flags below and I could have hoisted a signal of distress: but to what purpose?
As to the secret," added he, "what purpose will it answer to make her promise, since she will risk nothing in deceiving us?
To what purpose is it, then, you spend my money, if you only get drunk with the men, and loiter your time in courting the waiting maids, if you do not give me better information of what is going forward?
What purpose would it answer, Sir, to give a reply to your request?
If I could have submitted to it in other respects, what purpose would it answer?
The use of the provision in the sixth clause, my lords, I am not able to conceive; for to what purpose, my lords, should the ships appointed for any particular service be nominated at any stated time?
And to what purpose should I run over any of the other gods' tricks when you know enough of Jupiter's loose loves?
Or to what purpose, think you, should I describe myself when I am here present before you, and you behold me speaking?
Or towhat purpose laws, where there were no ill manners?
And indeed to what purpose would it be singly to recount the commonalty and rabble of mankind, who beyond all question are entirely on my side?
Beside, to what purpose is it to lay down a definition for a faint resemblance, and mere shadow of me, while appearing here personally, you may view me at a more certain light?
Of the Shepheards or pastorall Poesie called Eglogue, and to what purpose it was first inuented and vsed.
Of the shepheards or pastorall poesie called Egologue, and to what purpose it was first inuented and deuised.
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