Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	author_n	great_a	write_v	3,726	5	5.3359	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25820	Aristotle's Rhetoric, or, The true grounds and principles of oratory shewing the right art of pleading and speaking in full assemblies and courts of judicature / made English by the translators of The art of thinking ...; Rhetoric. English	Aristotle.; Anaximenes, of Lampsacus. Rhetorica ad Alexandrum. English.	1686 (1686)	Wing A3695; ESTC R21111	145,667	300

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