Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	body_n	heaven_n	place_n	9,023	5	5.0953	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06862	The iudgment of humane actions a most learned, & excellent treatise of morrall philosophie, which fights agaynst vanytie, & conduceth to the fyndinge out of true and perfect felicytie. Written in French by Monsieur Leonard Marrande and Englished by Iohn Reynolds; Jugement des actions humaines. English	Marandé, Léonard de.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.; Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.	1629 (1629)	STC 17298; ESTC S111998	129,155	340

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