Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	artery_n	heart_n	vein_n	9,504	5	10.0908	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43998	Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, and power of a common wealth, ecclesiasticall and civil by Thomas Hobbes ...; Leviathan	Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.	1651 (1651)	Wing H2246; ESTC R17253	438,804	412

of naturall reason cannot choose but draw to it in all times a very considerable part of the people And the Spirituall though it stand in the darknesse of Schoole distinctions and hard words yet because the fear of Darknesse and Ghosts is greater than other fears cannot want a party sufficient to Trouble and sometimes to Destroy a Common-wealth And this is a Disease which not unfitly may be compared to the Epilepsie or Falling-sicknesse which the Jewes took to be one kind of possession by Spirits in the Body Naturall For as in this Disease there is an unnaturall spirit or wind in the head that obstructeth the roots of the Nerves and moving them violently taketh away the motion which naturally they should have from the power of the Soule in the Brain and thereby causeth violent and irregular motions which men call Convulsions in the parts insomuch as he that is seized therewith falleth down sometimes into the water and sometimes into the fire as a man deprived of his senses so also in the Body Politique when the Spirituall power moveth the Members of a Common-wealth by the terrour of punishments and hope of rewards which are the Nerves of it otherwise than by the Civill Power which is the Soule of the Common-wealth they ought to be moved and by strange and hard words suffocates their understanding it must needs thereby Distract the people and either Overwhelm the Common-wealth with Oppression or cast it into the Fire of a Civill warre Sometimes also in the meerly Civill government there be more than one Soule As when the Power of levying mony which is the Nutritive faculty has depended on a generall Assembly the Power of conduct and command which is the Motive faculty on one man and the Power of making Lawes which is the Rationall faculty on the accidentall consent not onely of those two but also of a third This endangereth the Common-wealth somtimes for want of consent to good Lawes but most often for want of such Nourishment as is necessary to Life and Motion For although few perceive that such government is not government but division of the Common-wealth into three Factions and call it mixt Monarchy yet the truth is that it is not one independent Common-wealth but three independent Factions nor one Representative Person but three In the Kingdome of God there may be three Persons independent without breach of unity in God that Reigneth but where men Reigne that be subject to diversity of opinions it cannot be so And therefore if the King bear the person of the People and the generall Assembly bear also the person of the People and another Assembly bear the person of a Part of the people they are not one Person nor one Soveraign but three Persons and three Soveraigns To what Disease in the Naturall Body of man I may exactly compare this irregularity of a Common-wealth I know not But I have seen a man that had another man growing out of his side with an head armes breast and stomach of his own If he had had another man growing out of his other side the comparison might then have been exact Hitherto I have named such Diseases of a Common-wealth as are of the greatest and most present danger There be other not so great which neverthelesse are not unfit to be observed As first the difficulty of raising Mony for the necessary uses of the Common-wealth especially in the approach of warre This difficulty ariseth from the opinion that every Subject hath of a Propriety in his lands and goods exclusive of the Soveraigns Right to the use of the same From whence it commeth to passe that the Soveraign Power which foreseeth the necessities and dangers of the Common-wealth finding the passage of mony to the publique Treasure obstructed by the tenacity of the people whereas it ought to extend it selfe to encounter and prevent such dangers in their beginnings contracteth it selfe as long as it can and when it cannot longer struggles with the people by stratagems of Law to obtain little summes which not sufficing he is fain at last violently to open the way for present supply or Perish and being put often to these extremities at last reduceth the people to their due temper or else the Common-wealth must perish Insomuch as we may compare this Distemper very aptly to an Ague wherein the fleshy parts being congealed or by venomous matter obstructed the Veins which by their naturall course empty themselves into the Heart are not as they ought to be supplyed from the Arteries whereby there succeedeth at first a cold contraction and trembling of the limbes and afterwards a hot and strong endeavour of the Heart to force a passage for the Bloud and before it can do that contenteth it selfe with the small refreshments of such things as coole for a time till if Nature be strong enough it break at last the contumacy of the parts obstructed and dissipateth the venome into sweat or if Nature be too weak the Patient dyeth Again there is sometimes in a Common-wealth a Disease which resembleth the Pleurisie and that is when the Treasure of the Common-wealth flowing out of its due course is gathered together in too much abundance in one or a few private men by Monopolies or by Farmes of the Publique Revenues in the same manner as the Blood in a Pleurisie getting into the Membrane of the breast breedeth there an Inflammation accompanied with a Fever and painfull stitches Also the Popularity of a potent Subject unlesse the Common-wealth have very good caution of his fidelity is a dangerous Disease because the people which should receive their motion from the Authority of the Soveraign by the flattery and by the reputation of an ambitious man are drawn away from their obedience to the Lawes to follow a man of whose vertues and designes they have no knowledge And this is commonly of more danger in a Popular Government than in a Monarchy because an Army is of so great force and multitude as it may easily be made believe they are the People By this means it was that Julius Caesar who was set up by the People against the Senate having won to himselfe the affections of his Army made himselfe Master both of Senate and People And this proceeding of popular and ambitious men is plain Rebellion and may be resembled to the effects of Witchcraft Another infirmity of a Common-wealth is the immoderate greatnesse of a Town when it is able to furnish out of its own Circuit the number and expence of a great Army As also the great number of Corporations which are as it were many lesser Common-wealths in the bowels of a greater like wormes in the entrayles of a naturall man To which may be added the Liberty of Disputing against absolute Power by pretenders to Politicall Prudence which though bred for the most part in the Lees of the people yet animated by False Doctrines are perpetually medling with