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	spirit_n	vital_a	3,442	5	11.1088	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17081	A discourse of ciuill life containing the ethike part of morall philosophie. Fit for the instructing of a gentleman in the course of a vertuous life. By Lod: Br.	Bryskett, Lodowick.; Giraldi, Giambattista Cinzio, 1504-1573. Ecatommiti. VIII.5.	1606 (1606)	STC 3958; ESTC S116574	181,677	286

soule were three distinct soules and not ioyned in one soule appointed for seuerall offices But because that opiniō hath bin esteemed but vaine it needeth not to be insisted vpon but briefly that I declare what Aristotle and Plato with their followers haue held The first with his scholers affirme the reasonable soule to be in substance indiuisible and albeit they assigne vnto her diuers vertues yet will they not haue them to be indeed seueral and diuers but that the diuersitie should proceed consist only in the maner of vnderstanding them supposing them to be in the soule after such a sort as in the line of a circle the inner part which is hollow or embowed and the outward which is bended Which two parts though we vnderstand them diuersly yet are they but one line and not seuerall Neither do they assigne vnto her diuers places but say that she is all and whole in all our body and in euery part of the same and apt there to exercise all her functions if the parts were apt to receiue them But because euery part is not disposed to receiue them therefore she maketh shew of them onely in such as are made fit instruments to execute her powers and faculties So giueth she vertue to the eye to see to the eare to heare and to the rest of the members that are the instruments of our senses But Plato and his sect haue giuē to euery power of facultie of the soule a peculiar seate in mans body for though they held the soul to be but one endued with seueral vertues or powers yet they affirmed that euery one of those had a seuerall seate appointed in mans body To the vegetatiue from which as from a fountaine they said the concupiscible appetite doth flow they appointed the Liuer for her place To the sensitiue whence cometh say they the feruent passion of anger they gaue the Heart But the reasonable soule as being the most diuine thing vnder heauen they assigned to hold her seate like a Queene in a royal chaire euen in the head vnto which opinion all the Greek authors of Physicke haue leaned and specially Galen the excellent interpreter of Hippocrates who hath not onely attributed three seuerall seates to the three seuerall faculties of the soule in respect of their operations but hath also shewed with what order those members are framed that must be the receptacles of those faculties For he sheweth how the first member that taketh forme after the conception is the liuer from whence spring all the veines that like small brookes carry bloud ouer all the body And in this member doth he place the liuing or nourishing soule which we haue termed vegetatiue affirming it to be most approching to nature Next vnto this he placeth the heart wherein all the vitall spirits are forged and receiue their strength for the generation whereof the liuer sendeth bloud thither where it is refined and made more pure and subtill and from thence by the arteries which all spring from the heart the same spirits are spread thoroughout the whole body And these two principall members are the seates of the two principall appetites the irascible and the concupiscible of that the heart of this the liuer And because all this while the creature hath yet no need as being vnperfect of sense or motion it is busied about nothing but receiuing of nourishment Somewhat further off from the heart beginneth the braine to grow and from it do all the senses flow and then loe beginneth the child to take forme and shape of a perfect creature the face the hands and the feet being then fashioned with the other parts of the body apt for feeling and voluntary mouing and from thence be deriued the sinewes the bands or ligaments and muscles are framed by which the motions of the members are disposed This part is the seate of the reasonable soule by vertue and power of which we vnderstand we will we discourse we know we chuse we contemplate and do all those operations which appertaine vnto reason And as nature hath placed the braine a good distance off from the other two principall members so hath she framed a cartilage or thin rynd or skin to seuer the heart from the liuer and other inward bowels as with a fence or hedge betweene them and the other baser parts that are lesse pure For the heart is purer and so is that bloud which conueyeth the spirits from it throughout the body then the liuer or the bloud which is ingendred in the same And in this respect was Aristotle iustly reprehended by Galen in that he gaue to the heart alone that which appertained to all three the principall members aforesaid For though he assigned diuers vertues or powers to the soule yet he placed them all in the heart alone from which he said contrary to that which common sense and experience teacheth that all the veines arteries and sinewes of the body were deriued But because we should go too farre astray from our purpose if I should discourse particularly all that which may be said in this matter I will returne if you so thinke good to our former purpose which I left to satisfie your demaund Thus much said the Lord Primate hath not a little opened the vnderstanding of this matter and therefore you may proceed vnlesse any other of the company haue any other doubt to propose But they all being silent and seeming attentiue to heare further I said Now that you haue vnderstood what the powers and faculties of the soule are it followeth to be declared how the ages of mās life haue similitude with the same As the soule of life therfore called vegetatiue is the foundatiō of the rest and consequently of the basest so is the age of childhood the foundatiō of the other ages and therfore the least noble for the necessity which it carieth with it And because vpō it the other ages are built there ought the greater diligence to be vsed about the same to make it passe on towards the other more noble then it self so as we may reasonably cōceiue a hope that frō a wel-guided childhood the child may enter into a cōmendable youth and thence passe to a more riper age by the directiō of vertue But first ye must vnderstād that Aristotle wil in no wise yeeld that this inferior soule should be capable of reason and therfore placeth in the sensible soule both the concupiscible and the irascible appetites And contrariwise Plato as before is said distinguisheth these two affects into both these faculties of the soule giuing to the first the concupiscible and the irascible to the other And because Plato his opinion hath generally bin better allowed then Aristotles I will speake thereof according as Plato hath determined This baser soule then being that whereby we be nourished we grow we sustaine life and receiue our body and being about whose maintaining and increase she vseth continually whether we wake or sleep