Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	artery_n	blood_n	ventricle_n	3,432	5	12.9947	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41495	The compleat gentleman, or, Directions for the education of youth as to their breeding at home and travelling abroad in two treatises / by J. Gailhard ...	Gailhard, J. (Jean)	1678 (1678)	Wing G118; ESTC R11538	187,544	338

curious things and necessary to be known concerning our inward parts viz. that the heart is the principle of life that the Liver is the chief instrument of the nutritive faculty and the shop of Blood that the bladder of the Gall is a necessary sink to settle the flava bilis or choler that thereby the Liver is warmed and freed from corruption and other good offices it doth and that the Spleen through several arteries receiving heat from the heart boileth the gross blood which through certain little ramuli's or branches it doth convey into the neighbouring parts for their nourishment and that it draws it self the melancholick humor to disperse it into the ventricle to strengthen and increase the retentive faculty and many things more of this nature He will do well when he is at Orleans Anger 's or any such places where are publick Schools of the Civil Law to get one of the Doctors or Professors thereof to read it to him which he will do privately in his own house or perhaps if you be a man of high quality come to your lodging Let no man account this to be a disparagement to himself for Learning and Virtue are a credit and I have known young Noblemen and of the greatest quality do 't And though this Roman Law be not every where received as a Law yet in 't is much of Reason and Equity and contains the grounds of politicks the parts of it were instituted by a wise Republick and great Emperors by the advice of judicious wise and able Counsellors by the means of it several men were raised to great honor and fortune according to the saying Dat Galenus opes dat Iustinianus honores Pauper Aristoteles This Civil Law once was received in many parts of the world and though at present it hath not the strength of a Law in some places yet it is much esteemed every where and lookt upon as a thing judiciously compiled I could also wish the Traveller to inform himself of the most essential municipal Laws of Countreys he comes into much more would I have him to understand those of his own which he is to live under and to be ruled by therefore when he is come home or before he goes abroad he would do very well to settle a year or two in one of the Inns of Courts therein to be instructed of and apply himself to it A man who hath an Estate is sometimes subject to be troubled about it and he will be glad to know how to defend it from cheats nor be forced to go to Lawyers upon every trivial account for counsel nor always do things upon trust and not know wherefore such and such courses must be taken and let it be an encouragement to those who would get preferments by it that in most Nations they who are eminently learned and versed in the Laws are raised to great places as to be Judges of the Land Lords Keepers and Chancellors of Kingdoms and as to Estates within these Dominions many Families have been and are daily raised to great means and fortune by the Law When he hath time and opportunity he will do well to learn to draw Pictures which is a gentile Exercise when one doth it for his private use and recreation it may serve to take the Plots Situation and Landskips of places he goes by hereby imagination is much helped so that a more perfect and more lasting idea of things is formed within us being conveyed through the eye As he goes by any Courts he must endeavor to get the Pictures of the Princes and Princesses young Princes and Ministers of State and other great men and the Maps of considerable Cities Let him not neglect to see and if possible to get some skill in ancient and modern Curiosities whether Pictures Statues of Brass Marble Alabaster c. Medals and other fair and curious things of which there is abroad such a variety that it would be tedious to name them all only I would wish him to endeavor to get an universal though it were but a superficial knowledge to be enabled upon occasion to discourse of any thing To the purpose of Medals I must say the study thereof is not only pleasant and curious but also beneficial for the understanding of History by their means we find the errors of some Authors we learn some particulars and understand niceties of History which Historians were silent in This is better than picture which doth not last and Sculpture which doth not so much represent to the life the faces or actions of great men it contains the best parts of these two Picture and Sculpture and the surest of History specially when they come from good Masters hands Then as to the matter the variety of Metals is considerable whether Gold Silver Corinthian Metal or Brass and of this last specially there are several sizes some of the greatest by Italians called Medaglioni then great Mezzane or of a middle size and at last those of the lesser sort and these either Roman or Greek the Roman either of Families or Emperors the Greek of Cities Of all these those which are historical are the most considerable and so worthy of the curiosity of Princes and great men as to have one of the best places in their Closets there is much learning in the knowledge of them and sometimes one affords matter enough to discourse a whole hour upon 't 'T is true it requires monies some skill and time to put several together in a word it is a very enticing curiosity and of great extent And this as to ancient Medals which some other time I may happen to enlarge upon But besides these there are also modern Medals for when Arts and Sciences were restored within the last age this was not forgotten but indeed Work-men were so ignorant and so followed the Gothick way that it is lamentable to see some of their Medals which yet were better than those coined 4 or 500 years ago but of late the way hath been so found out that England and France afford admirable ones and Holland too but inferior to the former Instead that formerly the best were of Brass now they are of Silver or Gold The ancient Roman ones since the days of Augustus were daily better and better till the days of Trajan and Hadrian and so kept till Caracalla at which time good work-men began to fail So modern ones though they began to appear in the days of Henry VII were hardly worth looking upon till within these thirty years when Corman in Rome Warin in France and now in England some have restored that art to a great perfection both as to the design and working of the Coin Thus by the means of twenty Medals more or less the whole History of a Princes life is laid open before us Some great men also but Subjects are by the means of a Medal made known abroad to the world The inclination I have for these things hath made me