Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	best_a	good_a	great_a	1,494	5	2.3396	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39716	The idea of His Highness Oliver, late Lord Protector, &c. with certain brief reflexions on his life / by Richard Fleckno, Esq.	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	1659 (1659)	Wing F1226; ESTC R6875	19,504	84

into one intire Trophee of our victory to shew the mightiness of the English Nation And that this had been the success of it had it been nigher hand or he had had the managing of the war we may well conjecture by the success our Army had in Flanders whether he could even intend his own eys and hands and by Auspice of his owne Fortune carry on the warre untill by taking Dunkirk and Mardike by our shipping as by a Bridge he had joyned our Isle unto the continent and Brittain was no longer divided from the world but the world was now joynd unto Brittainy and we to our greater honour and advantages might make or peace or war Peace and War as one wittily said beget each other in an Incestuous in onely peace is the Legitimate chield of war but war oftentimes the Illegitimate one of peace States become rather Great then Rich by war as they become rather Rich then Great by peace the best policy then is to intermix them so as neither the State fall into a plurisie by peace nor Hectique Feaver or Consumption by war But wars abroad are like our natural heat only an argument of our health and strength whilst Civil dissentions are like the heat of Feavers betokening sicknesse and infirmity under which notion I know not whether I should comprehend the private conspiracies against his life and state which he prevented and supprest with such temper and moderation as whilst the punishment extended but to few the fear of it extended unto all so far the whilst from Crueol and Sanguinair even when cruelty might have been accounted necessity as he never cut off one member but for preservation of all the rest nor let blood in one vein but to hinder all the rest from corruption The Conspiracies of a known discontented party are easily prevented because they are always lookt upon with jealous eyes they are rather ulcers then sicknesses of State they have more of the will then ability to do harm and are rather troublesome then dangerous nor are the Conspirators considerable but only for their inconsiderableness Men of Estates and Fortunes always comply with the present times and seek not with hazard to make them worse to better their conditions but men of no fortunes still wish for the future and having no Estates themselves are still longing for the Estates of other men and still striving to better their conditions when whatsoever change happens they can't be worse and for such as these 't is with injustice they complain of others not observing the Articles of War nor Act of Oblivion whilst they on their fides observe not their Articles of living peaceably under the present Government nor casting into oblivion all former enmities But the Conspiracies of those who have no other cause of discontent but onely their own unquiet dispositions are far more dangerous like pestilentious Feavers hard to be seen at first when easily prevented and hard to be prevented at last when easily seen and such were the Conspiracies of some unquiet spirits in Parliament against his Government It ordinarily happens that when two parties joyne in opposition against a third the third remov'd and tan ' away the other sub-divide but when 't is to the advantage of their common enemy if they understand their owne interest they remain united still and if any for their own particular interests seek to disunite them they look upon them as their enemy too Such was the case of the Army and Parliament and such were those men who oppos'd his Government neglecting the publique safety and business only to attend to their private Animosities complaining they were injur'd because they were suffred to doe no injury and who had rather have no Government at all then not to be the men themselves to govern us yet had these their Fautors amongst the multitude and were accompted Good Patriots by those who if they were wise would as much detest them now for opposing one another as they had them in veneration for opposing Kings in former times never considering that 'twas envy not zeal in them that they would change the Government only to have the Government that they would introduce themselves in place of others far more worthy then themselves and finally that whoever should be instruments of their Ambition should but be instruments of their own destruction But see the strange fates of those who govern us before whilst he did nothing for popularity every thing was popular that he did now on the contrary nothing was popular though he did every thing for popularity The same Actions are variously interpreted the same faces diversly lookt upon such prestigiousness there is in Government it makes the same persons hatefull when Princes once who seem'd most lovely when Subjects and private men and the reason's clear for none looke on those above them with equal eyes envy fascinates them and the people naturally Lovers of Liberty naturally hate all who have any Dominion over them Whence Oderint dum metuant let them hate so they fear me was the saying of a Tyrant but Oderint dum sine causa oderint let them hate me so they hate me without a cause this both he and every good Prince might say But he soon prevented their machinations and discipated their plots by dissolving the Parliament 'T is the best cure of malignant feavers to discipate the humors and great wisedome in those who contend to know their own Forces and theirs they contend withall the Parliament are enough to doe their businesse by gentlenesse but too few to do it by force violence and in vaine they imagine by number to carry it against those who can lessen their numbers when they please Yielding is the best weapon of the weak against the strong obliging them to lay aside their force and indeed the best weapon too of the strong against the weak obliging them to lay their obstinacy aside and either to contend in friendly courtesie In a word a little condescendency on both sides is the best way to make both parts agree as hot and cold though opposite in themselves agree together in Tepidity Neither was there any other way of contending with him but only by gentleness resolvd rather to lose his life then reputation as indeed it is the better life of Princes since without that their Authority is dead and gone by which they only live and reign But whether the Stars command us or we command the Stars may be a Probleme as well as whether the Suns motion or Earths occasions our dayly revolutions Certain it is he had such a commanding Genius as by gentle force made every one obey nor did he ever finde difficulty or opposition that by avoiding or incountring he did not overcome In a calme every common Mariner can sit at Helm but in a storm when the billows swell bigge and high when horror incompasses them on every side when they have nothing but death before