Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	law_n	prerogative_n	1,605	5	10.3114	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01516	The tvvoo bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of learning, diuine and humane To the King.; Of the proficience and advancement of learning	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1605 (1605)	STC 1164; ESTC S100507	164,580	339

appetere vt non metuas sunt animi pusilli diffidentis And it seemeth to me that most of the doctrines of the Philosophers are more fearefull and cautionary then the Nature of things requireth So haue they encreased the feare of death in offering to cure it For when they would haue a mans whole life to be but a discipline or preparation to dye they must needes make men thinke that it is a terrible Enemy against whom there is no end of preparing Better saith the Poet Qui sinem vitae extremum inter Munera ponat Naturae So haue they sought to make mens minds to vniforme and harmonicall by not breaking them sufficiently to coÌ„trary Motions the reason whereof I suppose to be because they themselues were men dedicated to a pri uate free and vnapplied course of life For as we see vpon the lute or like Instrument a Ground though it be sweet and haue shew of many changes yet breaketh not the hand to such strange and hard stoppes and passages as a Set song or Voluntary much after the same Manner was the diuersity betweene a Philosophicall and a ciuile life And therefore men are to Imitate the wisedome of Iewellers who if there be a graine or a cloude or an I se which may be ground forth without taking to much of the stone they help it but if it should lessen and abate the stone to much they will not meddle with it So ought men so to procure Serenity as they destroy not magnanimity Hauing therefore deduced the Good of Man which is priuate particular as far as seemeth fit wee will now returne to that Good of man which respecteth and be beholdeth Society which we may terme Duty bicause the term of duty is more propper to a minde well framed disposed towards others as the terme of vertue is applyed to a mind well formed coÌ„posed in it selfe though neither can a man vnderstand vertue without some relation to Society nor duety without an inwarde disposition This part may seem at first to pertaine to Science Ciuile and Politicke but not if it be wel obserued For it concerneth the RcgimeÌ„t gouernment of euery man over himself not ouer others And as in architectur the directioÌ„ of framing the postes beames other parts of building is not the same with the maner of ioyning them and erecting the building And in mechanicalls the direction how to frame an Instrument or Engyne is not the same with the manner of setting it on woorke and imploying it and yet neuerthelesse in expressing of the one you incidently expresse the Aptnesse towardes the other So the doctrine of Coniugation of men in Socyety differereth from that of their conformity therevnto This part of Duty is sudiuided into two parts the common duty of euery man as a Man or member of a State The other the respectiue or speciall duty of euery man in his prosession vocation and place The first of these is extaÌ„t wel laboured as hathbeen said The secoÌ„d like wise I may report rather dispersed theÌ„ dcficieÌ„t which maner of dispersed writing in this kind of ArgumeÌ„t I acknowledge to be best For who caÌ„ take vpoÌ„ him to write of the proper duty vertue cha and right of euery seuerall vocation profession and place For although sometimes a Looker on may see more then a gamester and there be a Prouerb more arrogant theu sound That the vale best discouereth the hill yet there is small doubt but that men can write best and most really materialy in their owne professions that the writing of speculatiue men of Actiue Matter for the most part doth seeme to men of Experience as Phormioes Argument of the warrs seemed to Hannibal to be but dreames and dotage Onely there is one vice which accompanieth them that write in their own professions that they magnify theÌ„ in excesse But generally it were to be wished as that which wold make learning indeed solide fruit ful that Actiue men woold or could become writers In which kind I cannot but mencion Honoris causa your Maiesties exellent book touching the duty of a king a woorke ritchlye compounded of Diuinity Morality and Policy with great aspersion of all other artes being in myne opinion one of the moste sound healthful writings that I haue read not distempered in the heat of inuention nor in the Couldnes of negligence not sick of Dusinesse as those are who leese themselues in their order nor of Convulsions as those which Crampe in matters impertinent not sauoring of perfumes paintings as those doe who seek to please the Reader more then Nature beareth and chiefelye wel disposed in the spirits thereof beeing agreeable to truth and apt for action and farre remooued from that Naturall insirmity whereunto I noted those that write in their own professions to be subiect which is that they exalt it aboue measure For your Maiesty hath truly described not a king of Assyria or Persia in their extern glory but a Moses or a Dauid Pastors of their people Neither can I euer leese out of my remembraunce what I heard your Maiesty in the same sacred spirite of Gouernment deliuer in a great cause of Iudicature which was That Kings ruled by theyr lawes as God did by the lawes of Nature and ought as rarely to put in vse theyr supreme Prerogatiue as God doth his power of working Miracles And yet notwithstandiug in your book of a free Monarchy you do well giue men to vnderstand that you know the plenitude of the power and right of a King as well as the Circle of his office and duty Thus haue I presumed to alledge this excellent writing of your Maiesty as a prime or eminent example of Tractates concerning speciall respectiue dutyes wherin I should haue said as much if it had beene written a thousand yeares since Neither am I mooued with cer tain Courtly decencyes which esteeme it flattery to prayse in presence No it is flattery to prayse in absence that is when eyther the vertue is absent or the occasion is absent and so the prayse is not Naturall but forced either in truth or in time But let Cicerobe read in his Oration pro Marcello which is nothing but an excellent Table of Caesars vertue and made to his face besides the example of many other excellent per sons wiser a great deale then such obseruers and we will neuer doubt vpon a full occasion to giue iust prayses to present or absent But to return there belongeth further to the handling of this partie touching the duties of professions and vocations a Relatiue or opposite touching the fraudes cautels impostures vices of euery profession which hath been likewise handled But howe rather in a Satyre Cinicaly then seriously wisely for men haue rather sought by wit to deride and traduce much of that which is good in professions then with Iudgement to discouer and seuer that which is corrupt For

vp both to be applyed to that which is frequent and most in request The former of these I will call Antitheta the latter Formulae Antitheta are Theses argued pro contra wherin men may be more large laborious but in such as are able to doe it to auoyd prolixity of entry I wish the seedes of the seuerall arguments to be cast vp into some briefe and acute sentences not to bee cyted but to bee as Skaynes or Bottomes of thread to bee vnwinded at large when they come to be vsed supplying authorities and Examples by reference Pro verbis legis Non est interpretatio sed diuinatio quae recedit a littera Cum receditur a littera Index transit in legislatorem Pro sententia Legis Ex omnibus verbis est Eluâ—â€¦endus sensus qui interpretatur singula Formulae are but decent and apt passages or conueyances of speeche which may serue indifferently for differing subiects as of Preface Conclusion Digression Transition Excusation c. For as in buildings there is great pleasure and vse in the well casting of the staire cases entryes doores windowes and the like so in speeche the conueyances and passages are of speciall ornament and effect A conclusion in a Delâ—â€¦eratiue So may we redeeme the faults passed preuent the inconue niences future There remayn two Appendices touching the tradition of knowledge The one Criticall The other Pedanticall For all knowledge is eyther deliuered by Teachers or attayned by mens proper endeuors And therefore as the principall part of Tradition of knowledge concerneth chiefly in writing of Books So the Relatiue part thereof concerneth reading of Bookes Wherunto appertayn incidently these consideratioÌ„s The first is coÌ„cerning the true Correction editioÌ„ of Authors wherin neuerthelesse rash diligeÌ„ce hath don gret preiudice For these Critiques haue ofteÌ„ presumed that that which they vnderstandnot is false set down As the Priest that where he found it written of S. Paul Demissus est per sportam meÌ„ded his book and made it Demissus est per portam because Sperta was an hard word and out of his reading and surely their errors though they be not so palpable and ridiculous yet are of the same kind And therefore as it hath beene wisely noted the most corrected copies are coÌ„monly the least correct The second is concerning the exposition and explication of Authors which resteth in Annotations and CoÌ„mentaryes wherin it is ouer vsual to blaunch the obscure places and discourse vpon the playne The third is concerning the times which in many cases giue great light to true Interpretations The fourth is concerning some briefe Censure and iudgement of the Authors that men therby may make some election vnto themselues what Bookes to reade And the fift is concerning the Syntax and disposition of studies that men may know in what order or pursuite to reade For PEDANTICALL knowledge it contayneth that differeÌ„ce of Tradition which is proper for youth Whereunto appertaine diuers considerations of greatfruit As first the tyming and seasoning of knowledges as with what to initiate them and from what for a time to refraine them Secondly the consideration where to begin with the easiest and so proceede to the more difficult And in what courses to presse the more difficulte and then to turne them to the more easie for it is one Methode to practise swimming with bladders and another to practise dauncing with heauy shooes A third is the application of learning according vnto the propriety of the wittes for there is no defect in the faculties intellectuall but seemeth to haue a proper Cure contayned in some studies As for example If a Child be Bird-witted that is hath not the facultie of attention the Mathematiques giueth a remedy thereunto for in them if the witte be caught away but a moment one is new to begin And as sciences haue a propriety towards faculties for Cure and helpe So faculties or powers haue a Simpathy towards Sciences for excellency or speedy profiting And therfore it is an enquity of greate wisedom what kinds of wits and Natures are most apt and proper for what sciences Fourthly the ordering of exercises is matter of great consequence to hurt or helpe For as is well ob serued by Cicero men in exercising their faculties if they be not wel aduised doe exercise their faultes get ill habits as well as good so as there is a greate iudgement to be had in the continuance and intermission of Exercises It were to longe to particularize a number of other consideratioÌ„s of this nature things but of meane appearance but of singular efficacy For as the wronging or cherishing of seeds or young plants is that that is most important to their thriuing And as it was noted that the first six kings being in trueth as Tutors of the State of Rome in the infancy thereof was the principal cause of the immense greatnesse of that state which followed So the culture and manurance of Minds in youth hath such a forcible though vnseen operacion as hardly any length of time or contention of labour can counteruaile it afterwards And it is not amisse to obserue also how small and meane faculties gotten by Education yet when they fall into greate men or great matters doe work great and important effects whereof we see a notable example in Tacitus of two Stage-plaiers Percennius and Vibulenus who by their facultie of playing put the Pannonian armies into an extreame tumulte and combustion For there arising a mutinie amongst them vpon the death of Augustus Caesar Bloesus the lieuetenant had committed some of the Mutiners which were suddenly rescued whereupon Vtbulenus got to be heard speake which he did in this manner These poore innocent wretches appointed to cruell death you haue restored to behould the light But who shall restore my brother to me or life vnto my brother that was sent hither in message from the legions of Germany to treat of the common Cause and he hath murdered him this last night by some of his sencers ruffians that he hath about him for his executioners vpon Souldiours Answer Blaesus what is done with his body The mortallest Enem'es doe not deny buriall when I haue performed my last duties to the Corpes with kisses with teares command me to be slaine besides him so that these my fellowes for our good meaning and our true hearts to the Legions may haue leaue to bury vs. With which speeche he put the army into an infinite fury and vprore whereas truth was he had no brother neyther was there any such matter but hee plaide it meerely as if he had beene vpon the stage But to returne we are now come to a period of RATIONALL KNOVVLEDGES wherein if I haue made the diuisions other than those that are receiued yet would I not be thought to disallow all those diuisions which I doe not vse For there is a double necessity imposed vpon me of altering the diuisions The one because it

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