Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	great_a	parent_n	1,520	5	8.2359	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26435	A briefe description of the whole world wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdoms of the same, with their academies, as also their severall titles and scituations thereunto adjoyning / written by the Reverend Father in God George Abbot ...	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1664 (1664)	Wing A62; ESTC R4619	117,567	344

them which they do with great pleasure For divers of the People of those quarters as the Caribees and the Cannibals and almost all are eaters of mans flesh In this Country groweth abundance of that wood which since is brought into Europe to die red colours and is of the place whence it commeth called Brasil wood the trees whereof are exceeding great The people of Brasil where Lyrius and his fellows lived are called by the name of Tauvaupinambaltii by description of whose qualities many things may be learned concerning the rest of the inhabitants neere thereobout First then they have no letters among them and yet seem to be very capable of any good understanding as appeared by the speech of some of them reproving the Frenchmen for their great greedinesse and cove●…ousness of gain when they would take so much pains as to come from another end of the world to get commodities there Their computation is onely by the Sun and Moon whom they hold to be of a Divine nature and although they know nothing truly concerning God yet they have a dark opinion that the soule doth live after the seperation from the body The men and women throughout the whole Countrey do go starke naked even very few of them having any thing on to cover their privities onely some of them do pull some kind of ornaments thorow their eares and the most of them have their lower lip boared thorow with a great hole therein putting some device or other They look very disguisedly but they are wonderful straight of limb and proportion insomuch that the Author writeth that in all the time wherein he lived among them he saw not one crooked backt or mis-shapen in any part whereof seeking to give a reason he ascribeth it to this that their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born but are put naked into the bed with their parents to lie which beds are devised of Cotton wooll and hung up between two trees not far from the ground in the which flagging down in the middle men and their wives and their children do lie together But whether this be the true reason of the straightnesse of their bodies it may be doubted from the authority of S. Hierom who in one of his treatises mentioning that the children of the noblest and greatest Romans in his time were very crooked when other which were breed of meaner parents were not so imputeth it to this cause that the Gentlewomen of Rome in a kind of wantonness did not suffer their infants to be so long swathed as poorer people did and that thereby their joynts and members not being tied and restrained within compass did flye out of proportion Certainly howsoever there may be some reasons naturally given of these things it is much to be ascribed to the immediate will of God who giveth and taketh away beauty at his pleasure The men of these parts are very strong and able of body and therefore either give sound strokes with their clubs where with they fight or else shoot strong shoots with their bows whereof they have plenty if any of them be taken in the wars after they have been cramed of pur pose to be eaten of their enemies they are brought forth to execution wherein marvellous willingly they do yeeld themselves to death as supposing that nothing can be more honourable unto them then to be taken and to die for their Country He therefore who is to kil the other doth with very much insolency and pride insult over him which is to be slain saying thou art he which would'st have spoyled and destroyed us and ours but now I am to recompence thee for thy pains and the other without all fear replies Yea I am he that would have done it and would have made no spare if I had prospered in mine intent and other such sutable words shewing their resolution to conquer or willingly to die in the common cause of themselves and their people It is strange to see the inhumane and unatural custome which many of the people of the West Indies have for there are whole Islands full of such Canibals as do eat mans flesh and amongst the rest these 〈◊〉 are famous that way who when they are disposed to have any great meeting or to have any solemne feast they kill some of their adversaries whom they keep in store for that purpose cutting him out into collops which they call Boucan they will lay them upon the coals and for divers dayes together make great mirth in devouring them wherein they have this fashion very strange that so long as they are in their eating banquet although it continue divers daies they do never drink at all but afterwards when they are disposed to fall to drinking of a certain liquor which they have amongst them they will continue bousing at it for two or three dayes and in the mean time never eat In many parts both of Hispania nova and Peru as also in the Islands neer adjoyning they have an herbe whereof they make great use of which some is brought into divers parts of Europe under the name of Tobacco Paetum or Nicosiana although we have also much conterfeit of the same the people of those parts do use it as Physick to purge themselves of humours and they apply it also to the filling of themselves the smoak of it being received through a leafe or some such hollow thing into the nostrils head and stomack and causing the party which receiveth it to lie as if he were drunk or dead for a space needing no food or nourishment in the mean while Whereof it cannot be denied but that it is possible that by prescript of Physick it may by serviceable for some purposes among us although that also it be very disputable in as much as they who speak most highly of it must and do confess that the force of it is obstup●…factive and no other whereby it produceth his own effects and wise men should be wary sparing in receiveing of such a thing But when we do consider the vaine and wanton use which many of our Country-men have of late taken up in receiving of this Tobacco not only many times in in a day but even at meat and by the way to the great waste both of their purse and of their bodies we may wel deplore the vanity of the nation who thereby purpose themselves as ridiculous to the French and other our neighbours And certainly if it were possible that our worthy warlike and valiant Progenitors might behold their manners who do most delight therein they would wonder what a generation had succeeded in their rooms who addict themselves to so fond and worse than effeminate passion Benzo who lived among them of the West Indies doth call the smell of it a Tartarus and hellish savour And whatsoever looketh into those Books which our Christians travelling