Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	deaf_a	dumb_a	pupil_n	48	3	16.8057	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30108	Philocophus, or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips : upon the same ground ... that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue / by I.B., sirnamed the Chirosopher.	J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing B5469; ESTC R3977	76,261	240

This is the interpretor and as it were the message of the minde This doth easily expresse and declare those things which the understanding conceives All which things how much they confer to the attaining of discipline how much to the society of men among themselves And lastly how much to their conservation and perfection hereby appeares manifest that they who are most able in speech they also seeme to excell among men and to be of a more excellent understanding To summe up all Speech doth so much avayle to the adorning and perfecting of man that nothing almost greater or better could have beene given by God And therefore Plato sayd The Effluction of words the Minister of prudence is of all Effluctions the best and most beautifull So that in Republicâ literariâ deafe and dumbe men never attaine to any degree of honour or respect Let us see how they are lookt upon in Foro Civili there there is much arguing about their Civill capacities and many Embargos have beene made of their goods and those priviledges which belong to a free condition with many inconveniencies and incumbrances on their estates A deafe and dumbe man cannot be a witnesse in those things which are perceived by the sense of hearing A deafe and dumbe man is uncapable of all conventions which require words A man borne deafe and dumbe cannot Donare some extend it to other contracts but Alexander reproves that extension A deafe and dumbe man understanding nothing is compared to an Infant If a dumbe man understand any thing he is compared to a Pupill A deafe and dumbe man found a Delinquent is not punished more gently as a Pupill A dumbe man may enterpose his command if he have understanding but he cannot interpose his authority A dumbe and deafe man cannot alienate among the living for he is like to a dead man A man deafe and dumbe by nature cannot make his last Will and Testament A deafe and dumbe man cannot appoint Executors of his last Will and Testament If a man be dumbe and deafe by nature so that he can neither write nor speake he cannot make his Testament but if these defects be severed that hee can either write or speake he may make his Will and it is of force This therefore is to be observed A man both deafe and dumbe by nature cannot make his Will and although it be made for a pious cause it is not of fo●ce among which causes liberty is numbred For a Testament made by a man both dumbe and deafe by nature wherein hee bequeatheth freedome is of no value But if he be not mute or deafe by nature and hath learnt to Paint or Write hee may make his Testament Yet some say that in making a last Will there is neede of an articulate voyce and that signes will not suffice Sennertus very justly therefore calls deafenesse Miserandum malum a pittyfull and miserable mischance for since the Eares are as it were the Portall or entrie of the minde by which those things are sent into the minde which are delivered by Doctrine and Institution for the right managing and transacting our life before God and men that man must needes be miserable who is destitute of the facultie of hearing for hee cannot use the ayde and benefit of hearing either to his eternall health or present safety They are more miserable yet who are withall blinde Since they are not capable of the benefit of this Art or of an ocular supply to their Auricular defect But most miserable are they who are blinde deafe and dumbe An example of which wretched condition we have in Platerus of a certaine Abbot who being made blinde mute and deafe by the malignity of the French Pox could no other way understand and perceive the mindes of others then by their drawing letters upon his naked arme with their finger or piece of wood expressing some intimation unto him out of which singly by themselues apart perceived he collected a word and of may wordes a sentence which how miserable a case it was and how horrid the punishment of his committed sinne any one may easily understand A pregnant example of the officious nature of the Touch in supplying the defect or temporall incapacity of the other senses we have in one Master Babington of Burntwood in the County of Essex an ingenious Gentleman who through some sicknesse becomming deaf doth notwithstanding feele words and as if he had an eye in his finger sees signes in the darke whose Wife discourseth very perfectly with him by a strange way of Arthrologie or Alphabet contrived on the joynts of his Fingers who taking him by the hand in the night can so discourse with him very exactly for he feeling the joynts which she toucheth for letters by them collected into words very readily conceives what shee would suggest unto him By which examples you may see how ready upon any invitation of Art the Tact is to supply the defect and to officiate for any or all of the other senses as being the most faithfull sense to man being both the Founder and Vicar generall to all the rest So that whereas among the senses bestowed upon us by nature some are necessarie to life others to a happy life some to neither without the sense of Touch man can neither bee nor live without sight and hearing he may indeed live yet no way well or happly smelling is neither necessary to a mans being nor well-being And that sight and hearing conduce to a good and happy life appeares in that they are most necessary for the acquiring prudence and discipline And although Aristotle seemes to have thought that sight did more conferre to prudence then hearing Yet Mercurialis is of another opinion because he observed blinde men to be oftentimes wiser and more prudent then those that were deafe So that he who is deprived of his hearing seemes to be at the greatest losse and therefore a good Aurist is worthy of double honour But most disconsolate is their condition who are naturally deafe and withall indocile fooles or mad of which sort I have known many For they commonly are deprived of the society and conversation of men and by reason of their incapacitie and want of understanding they are fit for no publique employment and they are in vaine and impertinently present at any conference or consultation their condition in many things being far worse then that of blinde men In the Civill Law a deafe man understanding nothing is compared to an Infant and if he altogether want understanding he must have a Guardian appointed him it being left to the arbitriment of the Judge to determine whether he hath understanding or no and there are certaine signes nominated by which hee must demonstrate that he is not voyde of understanding And when it is presumed that he wants understanding he is interdicted Marriage by the Canon Law Observation VII AT the last there was a Priest who undertooke the teaching him to understand