Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bear_v	life_n	live_v	4,791	5	5.2156	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28444	The oracles of reason ... in several letters to Mr. Hobbs and other persons of eminent quality and learning / by Char. Blount, Esq., Mr. Gildon and others.	Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.; Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715. Archaeology philosophicae.; Gildon, Charles, 1665-1724.; H. B.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3312; ESTC R15706	107,891	254

nostrils the breath of life and man was made a living soul Gen. 2.7 But after another manner and of other matter was the Woman built viz. with one of Adams small bones for as Adam lay asleep God took away one of his ribs and out of that made Eve The words of Moses are these And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man for a wife Gen. 2.21 So much for the forming of the first Man and first Woman according to the literal Reading Now Moses has likewise given us a large account of their first habitation he says that God made them a certain famous Garden in the East or as others render it ab antiquo of old and gave it to them as a Farm to cultivate and inhabit which Garden was a most delightful place watered with four several Fountains or Rivers planted with Trees of all kinds as well those that bore fruit as those that were agreeable for their shade and aspect Amongst which Trees in the midst of the Garden stood two more remarkable than the rest whereof one was called the Tree of Life the other the Tree of Death or of the Knowledg of Good and Evil. Why one was called the Tree of Life is not certain perhaps because whoever had eat of it would have from it received Immortality as many conjecture The effect of the other fatal experience has sufficiently taught us Hino illae Lachrymae infandus dolor 'T is for our first Parents eating the fruit of this Tree that all their Posterity now smarts and is punished for a crime committed some thousands of years before they were born But of this I 'le here present you with a full relation God upon pain of death prohibits Adam and Eve from tasting the fruit of this Tree But it happened upon a time that Eve sitting solitarily under this Tree without her Husband there came to her a Serpent or Adder which tho I know not by what means or power civilly accosted the Woman if we may judg of the thing by the event in these words or to this purpose Serp. All Hail most fair one what are you doing so solitary and serious under this Shade Eve I am contemplating the beauty of this Tree Serp. 'T is truly an agreeable sight but much pleasanter are the fruits thereof Have you tasted them my Lady Eve I have not because God has forbidden us to eat of this Tree Serp. What do I hear who is that God that envies his Creatures the innocent delights of Nature Nothing is sweeter nothing more wholsom than this very fruit why then should he forbid it unless he were in jest Eve But he has forbid it us on pain of death Serp. Undoubtedly you mistake his meaning This Tree has nothing that would prove fatal to you but rather something Divine and above the common force of nature Eve I can give you no answer but will first go to my Husband and then do as he thinks fit Serp. Why should you trouble your Husband about such a trifle Use your own judgment Eve Let me see had I best use it or no what can be more beautiful than this Apple How sweetly it smells but it may be it tasts ill Serp. Believe me 't is a bit worthy to be eaten by the Angels themselves do but try and if it tasts ill throw it away and say I am a great Lyar. Eve Well I 'le try then thou hast not deceived me it has indeed a most agreeable flavour Give me another that I may carry it to my Husband Serp. Very well thought on here 's another for you go to your Husband with it Farewell happy young Woman In the meantime I 'le go my ways let her take care of the rest Accordingly Eve gave this Apple to the too uxorious Adam which he likewise eat off when immediately upon their eating of it they became both I know not how ashamed of their Nakedness and sowing together Fig-leaves made them a sort of Aprons to cover their Pudenda Now after these transactions God did in the Evening descend into the Garden upon which our first Parents fled to hide themselves among the thickest of the Trees but in vain for God called out Adam where art thou When he trembling appeared before the Almighty and said Lord when I heard thee in this Garden I was ashamed because of my nakedness and hid my self amongst the most shady parts of the thicket Who told thee said God that thou wert naked Have you eaten of the forbidden fruit That Woman thou gavest me brought it 't was she that made me eat on 't You have finely order'd your business you and your wife Here you Woman what is this that you have done Alas for me thy Serpent gave me the Apple and I did eat of it This Apple shall cost you dear and not only you but your posterity and the whole race of Mankind Moreover for this crime I will curse and spoil the Heavens the Earth and whole Fabric of Nature But thou in the first place vile beast shalt bear the punishment of thy craftiness and malice Hereafter shalt thou go creeping on thy belly and instead of eating Apples shalt lick the dust of the Earth As for you Mrs. Curious who so much love Delicacies in sorrow shall you bring forth Children you shall be subject to your Husband and shall never depart from his side unless having first obtained his leave Lastly as for you Adam because you have hearkened more to your Wife than to me with the sweat of your brow you shall obtain your food both for her and her Children You shall not gather fruits which as heretofore grew of themselves but shall reap the fruits of the Earth with labour and trouble May the Earth for thy sake accursed hereafter grow barren may she produce thistles thorns tares with other hurtful and unprofitable herbs and when thou hast here led a troublesom laborious life Dust thou art to Dust thou shalt return In the mean while let these Rebels be banished out of my Garden and sent as Exiles into strange Lands least they also eat the fruit of the Tree of Life and live for ever However for fear they should perish through the cold or inclemency of the Weather the Almighty made them Doublets of the Skins of Animals and being thus clad he thrusts them out of Paradice Finally to prevent their return he placed Angels at the entrance of his Garden who by brandishing a Flaming-sword and waving it on all sides guarded the passage that led to the Tree of Life This is the Summ and Substance of Moses's Account concerning Paradice and the first State of Minkind which keeping always close to the Sense I have explained in other words that we may more freely judge

are not subject to the Corruption of Air and have carefully provided that whatsoever has been done by them should not sleep in obscurity but be kept in memory in the publick Writings of the most learned Men. Contra Appionem lib. 1. Which is as if he had said Forasmuch as no other Nations but the Aegyptians Phaenicians and Chaldees have certain Records of their Original therefore will I pretend my own Nation of the Iews to be ancienter than them who cannot disprove me but beâ—ause the Egyptians Phaenicians and Chaldees have more ancient Records of their Country in being to disprove me therefore to prevent being confuted I think it more convenient to yield to them in Antiquity And this is the secret meaning of what Iosephus says I have observ'd that no Prophets ever â—oretold the End of the World should happen till many years after their own deaths being thereby sure not to live to see themselves proved Lyars Cur mundi finem propriorem non facis ut ne Ante Obitum mendax arguerere sapis Owen upon Napier For they who prophesie of the World's destruction are upon sure grounds viz. that till it comes to pass it may be expected As Nature cannot create by making something out of Nothing so neither can it Annihilate by turning Something into Nâ—thing whence it consequently follows As there is No Access so there is no Diminâ—tion in the Universe no more than in the Alphabet by the infinite Combination and Transposition of Letters or in the Wax by the alteration of the Seal stamp'd upon it Now as for the Forms of natural Bodies no sooner doth any one abandon the Matter it inform'd but another steps instantly into the place thereof no sooner hath one acted his part and is retired but another comes presently forth upon the Stage tho' it may be in a different shape and so act a different part So that no Portion of the Matter is or at any Time can be altogether void and empty but like Vertumnus or Proteus it turns it self into a thousand shapes and is always supply'd and furnish'd with one Form or another there being in Nature Nothing but Circulation Ne Res ad Nihilum redigantur protinus omnes Lucret. lib. 2. And to this purpose divers of the Poets speak Nec sic interimit mors res ut materia Corpora conâ—iciat sed caetum dissipat ollis IndÃ¨ aliis aliud conjugit efficit omnÃ¨s Res ut convertant formas mutentque colores Et capiant Sensus puncto Tempore reddant Vt noscas referre eadem primordia rerum Lucret. lib. 2. Mutantur in aevum Singula inceptum alternat natura tenorem Quodque dies antiqua tulit post auferet ipsa Pontan Metamorph. cap. 48. Nec species sua cuique manet rerumque Novatrix Ex aliis alias reparat Natura figuras Nec perit in tanto quidquam mihi credite mundâ— Sed variat faciemque novat Nascique vocatur Incipere esse aliud quÃ m quod fuit antÃ© morique Desinere illud idem cum sint huc forsitan illa Haec Translata illuc summÃ¢ tamen omnia constant Ovid. Metam 15. Also Philo in his Book of the World 's Incorruptibility alledgeth to this purpose the Verses of a Greek Tragick Poet and I think of EuripÃ¯des which the Translator renders thus Genitum Nihil emoritur Sed Transpositum ultro Citroque For mam priorem alterat Casaubon likewise in his first Exercitation against Baronius sheweth from the testimony of Hippocrates Appolonius Seneca Antoninue the Emperor and others Nihil in rebus Creatis perire sed mutari duntaxat But to confirm what Ocellus saith we find something like it in the Scriptures for Solomon speaks much to the same purpose Eccles. 1.4 One Generation passeth away and another Generation cometh but the Earth abideth for ever Now as Geographers use to place Seas upon that part of the Globe which they know not so Chronologers who are much of the same humour do generally blot out out past Ages which are unknown to them as the one drown those Countries they cannot describe so do the other with their cruel Pens destroy those times whereof they have no account The Grecians made three Divisions of Time the unknown times the Heroick or fabulous Times and the Historical times or such as they knew to have been true The unknown Times were those with them which past from the Beginning of things to the Flood which Time whether it had a Beginning by Computation can never certainly be comprehended as Censorinus from Varro affirms The fabulous and Heroick times were those that intervened betwixt the Flood and the first Olympiad buried likewise in obscurity nor is it certainly known how long Inachus was from Ogyges or Codrus from Inachus Lastly the Historical and known part of Time is computed from the first Olympiad and treasur'd up by the Greek Historians That the Aegyptians and Phenecians had a constant Record of things past is confess'd by the very Greeks themselves who but lately learn'd the use of Letters from Cadmus the Phaenician for which reason it has been doubted whether the Greeks had any use of Letters in time of the Trojan Expedition as we may find in Iosephus against Appion That the Phaenicians had the use of Letters long before Moses and spake the same Language as the the Hebrews did is clearly proved by Samuel Petit in his Mescellanea as well as by the Learned Bochart in his Phaleg For although we know of no Writer at this time extant more ancient than Moses unless it be Ocellus yet few will deny but that there were Writers before him out of whom he collected much of his own History wherefore says Dr. Brown I believe besides Zoroaster there were divers others that wrote before Moses Upon which his Annotator quotes a passage out of Apuleius in Apol. in these words Si quod libet modicum emolumentum probaveritis ego ille sim Carinondas vel Damigeron vel is Moses vel Iannes vel Appollonius vel ipse Dardanus vel quicunque alius post Zoroastrem Hostanem inter Magos celebratus est Diodorus Sciculus was not only famed for his great Learning but by reading enquiring and travelling throughout Europe Asia and Africa for the space of forty years had furnish'd his Library with many ancient and exquisite Volumes Now he speaking of the Chaldeans relates that they thought very long ago that the World according to its own Nature was eternal having no beginning nor that it should have any Corruption in order to an end and that mankind was from Eternity without any beginning of their Geâ—eration that the Stars were eternal and by long observation of those eternal Stars as also an acute knowledge of each of their particular motions they foretold many future Events You will hardly says he believe the Number of years that the Colledge of Chaldeans affirm'd they had spent in Contemplation of the Vniverse for before the Expedition of Alexander into Asia they reckon'd four hundred and seventy thousand years from the time they began to observe the Stars Likewise Cicero who was cotemporary with Diodorus mentions the very same account of Time and Number of years Critias in Plato's Dialogue call'd Timaeus tells us how an ancient Egyptian Priest laugh'd at old Solon for boasting of the Primitive acts of the Athenians as of Phoroneus and Niobe before the Flood as also of Deucalion and Pyrrha after the Flood whereas the Priest told Solon there had formerly been many more Floods that he was ignorant even of the most famous of his Ancestors that he had no knowledge of another Athens the first and most ancient which stood before the Flood and was destroyed by it that he never heard of the glorious Enterprizes which those first Athenians had perform'd ten thousand years before the Flood at which time an innumerable Company of fierce Warriors had invaded Egypt and Greece and all that was against Hercules Pillars against whom the only Valor of the Citizens of old Athens was then shewn above all other Nations Now whether the Priest did this to banter poor Solon I shall not determine but the same History is cited likewise in Arnobius's Treatise against the Gentiles where he uses these words We were the Cause says he that Ten thousand Years ago a great Army of Men came from the Atlantick Islands as Plato relates and destroy'd a great many Cities Scaliger in his Book de Emâ—nd Temp. says That the Chineses reckon'd the World to have been Eight hundred eightscore thousand and seventy three Years old Anno Domini 1594. But I shall tire you no more with this Subject which as it does to me so undoubtedly it will to you and ought to do the same to every good Christian appear a meer Paradox tho' of as great Antiquity as any thing I ever yet met with in prophane Story However notwithstanding it does not edifie yet if it may in any kind serve to entertain and divert you 't is all that is aim'd at by SIR Your most faithful Friend and Servant BLOUNT FINIS Not to pass as Pyrrho is reported along without any regard to the mischance of his Friend Anaxarchus that was faln into a Ditch tho he that cou'd defend such sordid incompassion deserv'd to be so left A foolish man behind a friends back shall side with his enemy not remembring that of Horace Absentem qui rodit amicum qui non defendit c. * As Xenophon to Xantippe and the Children of Socrates who receiv'd no other benefit than his Learning from Socrates and yet expresses himself in his Epistle to Xantippe that he takes care only to thrive in the world for the sake of maintaining her and the Sons of his old Master Socrates

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