Selected quad for the lemma: head_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	bring_v	hand_n	left_a	2,539	5	10.3901	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31076	Of industry, in five discourses viz. in general, in our general calling as Christians, in our particular calling as gentlemen, in our particular calling as scholars / by Isaac Barrow ...	Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.	1693 (1693)	Wing B947; ESTC R12830	66,060	193

him that dwelleth with wisedom and So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man It is a calling whereby with greatest advantage we may benefit men and deserve well of the World drawing men to the knowledge and service of God reclaiming them from errour and sin rescuing them from misery and conducting them to happiness by clear instruction by faithfull admonition by powerfull exhortation And what can be more noble than to be the lights of the World the guides of practice to men the authours of so much good so egregious benefactours to mankind It is a calling most exempt from the cares the crosses the turmoils the factious jars the anxious intrigues the vexatious molestations of the World its business lying out of the road of those mischiefs wholly lying in solitary retirement or being transacted in the most innocent and ingenuous company It is a calling least subject to any danger or disappointment wherein we may well be assured not to miscarry or lose our labour for the Merchant indeed by manifold accidents may lose his voyage or find a bad market the Husbandman may plow and sow in vain but the Student hardly can fail of improving his stock and reaping a good crop of knowledge especially if he study with a conscientious mind and pious reverence to God imploring his gratious help and blessing It is a calling the industry used wherein doth abundantly recompence it self by the pleasure and sweetness which it carrieth in it so that the more pains one taketh the more delight he findeth feeling himself proportionably to grow in knowledge and that his work becometh continually more easie to him It is a calling the business whereof doth so exercise as not to weary so entertain as not to cloy us being not as other occupations are a drawing in a mill or a nauseous tedious repetition of the same work but a continued progress toward fresh objects our mind not being staked to one or a few poor matters but having immense fields of contemplation wherein it may everlastingly expatiate with great proficiency and pleasure It is a calling which doth ever afford plentifull fruit even in regard to the conveniences of this present and temporal state the which sufficiently will requite the pains expended thereon for if we be honestly industrious we shall not want success and succeeding we shall not want a competence of wealth of reputation of interest in the World for concerning wisedom which is the result of honest study the Wise-man telleth us Riches and honour are with her yea durable riches and righteousness Length of days are in her right hand and in her left hand riches and honour Exalt her and she shall promote thee she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her she shall give to thine head an ornament of grace a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee In common experience the wealth of the mind doth qualifie for employments which have good recompences annexed to them and neither God nor man will suffer him long to want who is endowed with worthy accomplishments of knowledge It was a ridiculous providence in Nero that if he should chance to lose his Empire he might live by sidling yet his motto was good and Dionysius another Tyrant found the benefit of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he that hath any good art hath therein an estate and land in every place he is secured against being reduced to extremity of any misfortune Wisedom saith the Wise-man is a defence and money is a defence but the excellency of knowledge is that wisedom giveth life to them that have it money is a defence of which fortune may bereave us but wisedom is beyond its attacks being a treasure seated in a place inaccessible to external impressions And as a learned man cannot be destitute of substance so he cannot want credit having such an ornament than which none hath a more general estimation and which can be of low rate onely among that sort of folk to whom Solomon saith How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and fools hate knowledge It is that which recommendeth a man in all company and procureth regard every one yielding attention and acceptance to instructive neat apposite discourse that which the Scripture calleth acceptable pleasant gratious words men think themselves obliged thereby by receiving information and satisfaction from it and accordingly Every man saith the Wise-man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer and for the grace of his lips the King shall be his friend and The words of a wise-man's mouth are gratious It is that an eminency wherein purchaseth lasting same and a life after death in the good memory and opinion of posterity Many shall commend his understanding and so long as the world endureth it shall not be blotted out his memorial shall not depart away and his name shall live from generation to generation A fame no less great and far more innocent than acts of Chivalry and Martial prowess for is not Aristotle as renowned for teaching the World with his Pen as Alexander for conquering it with his Sword is not one far oftner mentioned than the other do not men hold themselves much more obliged to the learning of the Philosopher than to the valour of the Warriour Indeed the fame of all others is indebted to the pains of the Scholar and could not subsist but with and by his fame Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori learning consecrateth it self and its subject together to immortal remembrance It is a calling that fitteth a man for all conditions and fortunes so that he can enjoy prosperity with moderation and sustain adversity with comfort He that loveth a Book will never want a faithfull friend a wholesome counsellour a chearfull companion an effectual comforter By study by reading by thinking one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself as in all weathers so in all fortunes In fine it is a calling which Solomon who had curiously observed and exactly compared and scann'd by reason and by experience all other occupations and ways of life did prefer above all others and we may presume would sooner have parted with his royal state than with his learning for Wisedom saith he is the principal thing therefore get wisedom and with all thy getting get understanding and Then I saw then that is after a serious disquisition and discussion of things I saw that wisedom exceedeth folly that is knowledge excelleth ignorance as light excelleth darkness These things and much more may be said of learning in general but if more distinctly we survey each part and each object of it we shall find that each doth yield considerable emoluments and delights benefit to our soul advantage to our life satisfaction to our mind The observation of things and collection of experiments how doth it enrich the mind with Idea's and breed a