Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	let_v	see_v	3,350	5	3.0636	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35856	Didascalocophus, or, The deaf and dumb mans tutor to which is added a discourse of the nature and number of double consonants, both which tracts being the first (for what the author knows) that have been published upon either of the subjects / by Geo. Dalgarno.	Dalgarno, George, 1626?-1687.	1680 (1680)	Wing D129; ESTC R11949	52,273	143

I am tall thou art short he is thick I am sitting thou art standing he is walking The Particles OR and AND with the adjectives Same and diverse are to be diligently inculcated as being words of frequent use and useful for explication and declaring the sense of other words Or in the explicative sense of it coming between words signifying the same thing And between words signifying diverse things It may be good to write down many examples of Synonymous words and phrases which your Scholar understands joyning them with or as The same I stand or I do stand or I am standing the same to go or to walk the same wide or broad So for the Copulative AND give such examples as these Diverse Hand and Foot diverse Pen and Ink diverse Sun and Moon But the frequent recurring of these and many such like in common familiar and necessary forms of speech will soon make them to be understood As for Particles signifying Motion as to from thro by into out of hither thither hence thence c. whether prepositions or adverbs so Distance as far off near at hard by close by c. Position as before behind above upon beneath about up down beyond on this side c. Their use and meaning is so plain and obvious that there needs no more but choice of fit examples to make them understood The Table is before your face The Chair is behind your back The book is upon the Table My hand is above the Table the nose is between the Eyes the Eyes are above the mouth the mouth is under the eyes the tongue is in the mouth to put out the tongue to rise up to sit down go to the door from the door come hither go thither c. These and such like words signifying circumstances perceivable by sense are as easily apprehended as words signifying bodily substance or sensible Quality Even the Particles of a Metaphysical extraction and more remote from sense may be easily understood if the Teacher be not too Metaphysical in his application I will mention here only two Topicks of this kind of Particles The causes and the Comparates which are the two principal sinews of discourse The particles from the causes are diverse from of with by wherefore therefore because why c. Use examples such as these This Pen was made by the Master of a Goose-quil for to write after my Copy Explain why wherefore what is the cause by expostulations and interrogations with your Scholar himself or others and Because in answer to these Observe here that many of these Particles being very equivocal it will not be prudence to represent this difficulty all at once lest it a maze and discourage your Scholar For example you have made him understand the causal particle with in such examples as these to cut with a knife to write with a Pen do not immediatly put him upon the Particle of Society with as go with me but explain the various use of such particles as they offer themselves occasionally in practice and as you find his capacity is able to receive For improving of occasions and complying with the Scholars capacity will be the Masters greatest commendation Not but that he may be put upon learning many set forms for exercise of memory tho he understand them not perfectly But do not put his understanding to the rack by an undiscreet pressing upon his apprehensive faculty Notions either simple or complex which you find he receives not readily But make a collection of such words and watch opportunities of explaining them I can give no better Rule for explaining words hard to be understood then that which Horace has given in a case not much unlike ours Dixeris Egregie notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum Where the principal Verb of a sentence is clearly apprehended it brings great light to other circumstantiating words So that the skilful chusing of verbs of Action well understood by your Scholar and the like dexterity in placing a hard word which you would have him to understand amongst other words of circumstance already well understood in construction with the verb every word of the sentence will reflect some light upon this dark word The second classis of Metaph or perhaps more properly Logical particles are those that owe their Origine to the Topick of the Comparates such as than much more most less least by so much c. explain these also by many fit examples in which the several degrees of comparrison may be demonstrated to the senses This water is as hot as that This cheese apple egg is greater or more great than that This apple is the greatest or most great of all the apples by how much this stick paper is longer than that by so much that is broader than this let the proportion be fitted and measured It will be necessary to make a collection of such forms of sentences as he understands one or two examples of every form that upon occasion he may have recourse to them as to rules and precedents in the like cases and amongst other forms forget not imperatives and interrogatives for which he will have early and frequent use Gather up all the forms of interrogation when who what where whose whence whether how long many great c. Form sentences upon every one of these interrogations in things familiar and subjoyn proper answers as whose book is this A. mine thine his thy brothers the Masters c. When shall we go to bed A. by and by at ten a clock an hour hence c. Imperative forms I pray give me the book take up the pen lay down the paper sit down rise up put on your hat open the door shut the door c. For exercise you may find great variety for him such as to vary the circumstances proposed to describe things from their causes from their contraries by comparing them with other things To form a narration of things seen to write Epistles Let him be put much upon the exercise of memory and that not only in loose words and incoherent sentences But let him bestow much time and pains in learning by heart in the first place for his Lectiones sacrae upon the Lords day and Holy-dayes the Lords Praier the Creed and ten Commandements with the Church-Catechism The solemnity and frequency of Divine Service would have good effects upon him being placed conveniently opposite to the Minister with a book before him and one to direct him till custome enable him to direct himself This would not only excite him to piety and devotion but in progress of time he would come both to understand and have by heart the greatest part of Divine Service Some other select passages of Scripture might be recommended to him as the first Chap. of Genesis the History of our Saviours Nativity and sufferings The most proper books among profane Authors for him to practice on I think of many were Aesops Fables and some playes