Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	child_n	duty_n	parent_n	4,781	5	9.4169	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79446	Le chemin abregé. Or, A compendious method for the attaining of sciences in a short time Together with the statutes of the Academy founded by the Cardinall of Richelieu. Englished by R.G. Gent.	Gentili, Robert, 1590-1654?	1654 (1654)	Wing C3779A; ESTC R223591	51,846	134

their bodies active and their joints supple but though these qualities add some grace to the body yet can they not make a compleat Gentleman contrariwise they make him rash and bold if they be not accompanied with perfections of the mind But if they were taught in the vulgar and mother tongue Vertue the duties of an honest man and all those things which belong both to peace and warr together with their exercises they would profitably employ each moment of their youth become at once active and learned and be fit for counsell execution and all manner of employment whatsoever This is the order which your Eminency observes in his house you cause your Pages to be equally bred up in arts and Exercises according to their age and capacity making choice of the best masters and tutors that can be had in every profession Your house being thus ordered is a Seminary of honor and vertue and there come more compleat gentlemen out of your service then out of all the Colledges Academies of this Kingdome These are young plants which grow up for your Glory you engrave your benefits upon the bark of hose tender plants and the character which you imprint thereon increase with time to your honor and the good of the state and France acknowledges amongst many other benefits that you dayly store it with most vertuous and compleat Nobility Your Eminency who knoweth better then any one that he education of youth is the ground and foundation both of a publick and private life upon which depends the happinesse of families and the greatnesse of Empires erects publick Academies and payes severall great pensions in colledges for children who having rare naturall parts want means to give them education charitably easing the Parents poverty and the Orphans misery bestowing means upon them whereby they may become capable of serving the State every one according to his Genius and profession Thus Sr. your Eminency doth dayly free the French Nobility from the yoak of poverty and ignorance the two greatest wants that are incident to man but though your liberality this way be very profitable yet it is in a manner particular extending but to a certain number of gentlemen Now by this establishment it will become universall all the youth of the Kingdome may partake of it and those who live not in the age wherein they may profit by your example will be instructed through your care and bounty The Nobility for a certain honors you and frequents your court more through duty and inclination then for any particular interest And Sir give me leave to tell you that by this foundation you will most powerfully win all their hearts to your service The Parents whose greatest care is for the good bringing up of their children will bless your designe and you shall be an occasion of joy in all families which were often wont to their great grief to see those who should be their glory and chief stay prove ignorant rude and gross I will not say brutish all their life time We may both in Court and Country find Dancers Fencers and the like enow But men capable of negotiations managing of affairs of moment knowing the humors of nations and how to take the best advantages thereupon of such men I say there is but a very small number to be had any where which causeth your Eminency to be so much oppressed with business being your self forced to have a vigilant eye and assisting hand every where both within and witho●t the Kingdom and to bear the burthen of the whole state having none to ease or assist you Strangers have long expected this establishment especially the Northern nations who are so desirous to learn the French tongue that they have set up schooles for the attaining to it in their own countryes yet with very small profit because that those which teach it are not perfect masters of it themselves and besides to to learne a language compleatly it is absolutely required to abide for a time in that country where it is naturally spoken by men women and children Many therefore come over into France where they receive again but little satisfaction for having private and particular masters they spend peradventure some part of the day in studying of French and the rest of their time they are amongst their country men in whose company they speak nothing but their own countrie language whereas if they did dayly meet in assemblies of French Gentlemen keeping company with them and continually hearing the Professors of Sciences and Masters of Exercises they would easily attain the true countrie accent and pronunciation and return home well contented and satisfied Have not they just cause of complaint against us if we neglect a thing of such great moment and which would be so profitable to us As soone as the newes of this establishment shall be divulged we shall sodainly have a mighty concourse of all the Northerne Nobility and the great men of those Countries will be glad to have such an occasion to bring up their Children in the company of the flower of the French Youth to gaine amongst them that activenesse and civility which is in a manner naturall to them learning withall Sciences Languages and Exercises And on the other side the French without any travaile by thus frequenting with strangers shall learne the manners customes and dispositions of other Nations By this meanes shall strangers taste the mildnesse of our Climate and see the statelinesse of our Government our Language shall flourish in all the Northerne parts where it is already in so much credit that it is ordinarily spoken in the Emperors the Kings of Poland Sweden and Denmarkes Courts in the Swissers Country and in Holland so that it is a kind of ignominie to a Courtier to have no Knowledge of the French tongue And so will the Eccho of your praises sound every where and your Citty grow famous thorow out the Universe Your Citty of Richelieu Sir stands in a most wholsome aire fruitfull and pleasant Country and a most delightfull scituation As for the wholsomnesse of the aire there are besides experience severall pregnant reasons for it First the soile being dry and sandy the subterraneall vapours cannot lurke nor lie hidden there to corrupt themselves exhaling easily finding free passage thorow the pores of the Earth they can not degenerate into malignant exhalations as might infect the lower region of the aire Secondly the City stands open and exposed to the most wholsome windes namely the North wind which hath its free passage by the plaine of Champigny and on the East side likewise there being no let to hinder it from receiving the benigne influences of the Sunne And contrariwise it is close sheltered from those windes and aires which ordinarily bring contagious diseases and mortalities amongst us being defended from the Southern wind by a thick and high wood and from the aire of the Sea by a great hill which is Westward