Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	law_n	soul_n	4,073	5	4.9506	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36291	A miscellania of morall, theologicall and philosophicall sentances [sic] worthy observation.; Polydoron	Done, John.; Donne, John, 1604-1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing D1857; ESTC R14930	35,703	226

the Gallowes if imprisonment Inne him not by the way Humane understanding followes high science slowly but fooles and women quest with Quando He cannot justly be deemed dishonest that putteth supposition to the proofe though with charge but he that knowes a thing to bee false and for wicked gaine leades others to repentance therein is a knave A bold foole hath great advantage in quiet ouer a sober wiseman for the foole accounts an earthquake but the earth's Morice-dance Thunder the Cloudes Colique the warrs a may-game fighting at sharpe a sport till hee bee beaten to better respects Take him for one of the unworthies that cannot endure the prayse of another In abstruse things arguments are endlesse obedience is better than Sacrifice Base sloathfull minds never thinke themselues satisfied for small panes The word good fellow as it is now senced by the vulgan imports a drunkard in a man a light huswife in a woman In our youth the senses bore the dominion but in our age the understanding should It is a poore back-biting stinking shift to caluminate authentique Authorities and Authors but plaine Roguerie to decurte or mispoint their writings Aproud man of all others should not be penurious for it engenders his hatred and due contempt Study reade practise and doe what can be to obtaine knowledge yet you shall finde an Ignorant will contemne all rather then lose the opinion of himselfe I am many times forc't by the lawes of hospitalitie to endure the hearing of goodmen calumniated but I beare it the easier because the servants of vice doe it In argument strive not too violently with an Obstinate for as staires mounts us to a chamber so must you graduate him An unlearned disputant is troublesome company but if angred very evill society ' and a sponge for defamatory intelligence Bookes are the best companions can bee for they keepe their passions inward and you neede not be troubled with them longer then you list or will A good booke should be read three times first to set his method secondly his matter thirdly to gather his instruction Anothers oppinion of thee concerns thee not so much as thine of thy selfe in which thou shouldest not bee partiall I never tooke a quicke answerer to have a great understanding for small things are sooner contracted then great We haue three things to doe in this world though some say but two viz. to avoide evill to doe good and things necessarie or indifferent Seest thou thy poverty and improsperitie makes enemies of thy former thought friends Faint not therefore for they were but outward friends not in ward and are like dogges that follow the meate not the men A prejudicate conce● workes like Yeast in a weake judgment Never trouble your selfe with anothers immagination or what hee speakes o● thee in secret for it is no● worth thy understanding unlesse hee durst speake it openly Hee that backbites other let him take care hee weare cleane linnen himselfe and keepe no company with women and doggs Point not at an others spots with foule fingers When I behold a man bravely accoutred a Lacedaemonian euen to the shoulders I thinke of Adams nakednesse and smile to see how For-like the world esteemes us more for the case then the carkase Passions are of diverse natures and choler the most unruly and untunable to all gentle societie which if you can command you are master of the captaine Disprayse by a foole Queane or Knave may stick like burs for the time but they pearce no further then the outside of the stookings and garments and are rather an honest mans comendation There 's secret poyson to the soule lurking in the bottome of great bowles of wine Men for the most part shake hands with sobrietie in the third cup of wine women in the second children in the first Bacchus and Venus are neere friends yet will Bacchus breake Venus her glasse when hee is much drunke A coniurer without learning showes his divell is but an asse or the spirit hee workes by an ignorant slave Drunkenesse is the gate to all vice or a paire of spectacles to see the Divell and his workes by Life cannot dye that which wee vulgarly call death is but dissolution of partes God his fire is life which may bee removed but cannot be extinguished That pleasure which is modest moderate and permanent is most to bee desired and highest to bee found A robust breeding makes a rough spirit and condition and is apter to anger then reformation There 's no telling a bred Seaman his errors aboordship or a drunkard hee is so when hee is so A voluptuous man will be master of his word that is hee will rather command it then it shall force him but a just man is a servant to his promise They are the proud indeed who overpasse the bounds of their calling and parts to challendge respect of others Our Appetites are Danaus daughters and our bodies their Tubbs Good objects stay and helpe the wandering of our mindes hence the Historicall use of pictures and holy Images are not unprofitable though Devotion sometimes overshoots the marke The cleanest of our clay houses have many durty corners which like Sluts wee loue not to looke upon till wee are chidden by affliction Men in Ancient time fought to preferre vertue vertuous men now silkewormes doung hath gotten the upper place A Flye with a candle does as a Foole with a fray and mony A Poet hath advantage of a true Historian for hee can fashion men as they should bee with invention onely the other ought to report them truely as hee finds them in many records Vaine boasting of knowledge showes emptinesse therein or vaine glory thereof He that steepes his Iest in his owne laughter is like him that swallowes his spettle but uncomely Ancient Heralds did denote the qualitie of deserts pretily and properly when they gave the field Sables to gownmen a field Gules to deserving Soldiers Argent and Or to men favoured in Courts of great Princes c. But now they sell monsters and cruell beasts to one another Few men weare in their coate Armours Lambes Doves and such harmlesse creatures but ravenous devouring and horrible beasts and birds which denotes that Pride is cruell and this invention is a child be got by warre A Serjant at law will endure the discharge of a great peece as stoutly as the proudest souldier of us all Sleepe of the body is the Image of its death and dreaming showes the soule is neither at home or needs sleepe A translator of bookes is but as one that deales anothers bread to all about him A translator an Anagrammatist are both in a narrow roome or entry cannot bestirre their witts if they deale truely Vulgar and meane witted people that meddle with the affaires of mighty Potentates resemble clownes and russettings in a Stage-play when they presume to sit in the play kings seat A students wife precizely fine and faire denotes her husband hath oft