Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	famine_n	joseph_n	pharaoh_n	1,487	5	10.4663	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01013	The picture of a perfit common wealth describing aswell the offices of princes and inferiour magistrates ouer their subiects, as also the duties of subiects towards their gouernours. Gathered forth of many authors, aswel humane, as diuine, by Thomas Floyd master in the Artes.	Floyd, Thomas, M.A., of Jesus College, Oxford.	1600 (1600)	STC 11119; ESTC S122030	71,774	330

knowledge of our soueraigne good and the ende of our life dependeth Wherefore we may in no sorte behaue our selues more prudently then by cōsidering how we may deale imprudently Such a prudent man was Agesilaus king of the Lacedemonians who when there was a battel to be pitched at Mantinia by his subiectes the Lacedemonians counselled them thus wisely that they should bēd all their force and strength and leuell at Epiminondas saying It was a poinct of prudence to cut off the hartiest souldier first of all meaning that valiant men were the causers of victory which when they had obserued obtained the conquest and so preuented the daunger and preserued their liues safety Whereby it was concluded that in warre one prudent man was of greater force to subdue then an whole army of vnwisemen For as Homer saieth Ille sapit solus volitant alii velut vmbrae Likewise Ioseph so excelled in prudence in aduising Pharao to prouide a man of wisedome and vnderstanding and set him ouer the land of Egypt saying Let Pharao make and appoint Officers ouer the land and take vp the first part of the land of Egypt in the seuen plenteous yeeres also let them gather all the foode of these good yeeres that come and lay vp corne vnder the hand of Pharao for foode in the citie and let them keepe it so the foode shal be for the prouisiō of the land against the seuen yeres of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt that the land perish not for famine the saying pleased Pharao and al his seruants and therfore accoūted Ioseph a most prudent and wise man In like sort the prudence of Licurgus the reformer lawmaker of the Lacedemoniās was the cause of the maintenaunce of their flourishing estate aboue 500. yeeres so that it was the chiefest in all Greece both for glory excellency of gouernment from whence they digressed not vntill such time as they wholy neglected those lawes and godly ordinances the which hee gaue them Wherefore to conclude the vigor strength of this vertue in all actions whether it be ingeneral to all in a Monastike life or Oeconomicall appertaining to families or politike which is the chiefest of all vsed to the good of the Commō wealth hath such efficacy that nothing without the same may rightly be effected for the confirmation whereof and a finall conclusiō we need no more then the liuely example of Argos which had his head inuironed with a hundred watching eies signifying vnto vs that he was euery way endued with great prudēce and singular discretiō wherfore if a Pagan and a Heathen man by the reportes of the Poets so excelled in the atchiuement of vertue wisedome and prudence how much the rather ought wee Christians to bee furnished with the same as an onely ornament of all actions For although the wit of mā is most precious and apt to al goodnes glistering as the yron brasse more more in wearing whose sharpnes and brightnes is like the sparkle that soonest kindleth desire though eloquence be a diuine influence and inuentiō the daerling of nature neuerthelesse inuention bringeth forth oft times a rude deformed matter and eloquence singeth a song harsh voide of tune concord of true melody without prudence by which men are alwaies cloathed and inuested with a mild and setled disposition wherein it steadeth them no lesse then a shippe floting on the Sea doeth the presence of a Pilote that may prudently vndertake wisely execute whatsoeuer he knoweth to be good after mature deliberation and cōsideration of all the circumstances of the fact If therfore a gouernour be not endued with prudence learning ciuill policy cannot be maintained and his Empire or gouernment auaileth not 1 Prudence reformeth abuses past ordereth thinges present foreseeth things to come 2 Iustice without Prudēce is dissolued into cruelty temperance into fury and fortitude into tyranny 3 It is a point of great Prudence to lament the life of a wicked man more then the death of the iust 4 To the prudent it is more pleasant to heare coūsell mixt with mirth then to the foolish to wāt sport mixt with rudenesse 5 He that searcheth out prudence findeth treasure in this life and enioyeth perfect happines in the life to come Of Fortitude Cap. 19. FOrtitude is an inuincible vertue or courage of the mind vndertaking any peril in an honest good cause also it is defined of some to be a firie humor of the spirit inflaming the minde with boldnes in all assayes conducting the body thorow a million of perils in attempting harde aduentures because nothing ought to bee hard for a valerous mā to attempt which might daunt abate his courage This vertue is of two sorts either consisting of the meere strength of the body which ought not to be termed fortitude because there be many men that haue stout bodies and great strength and yet cowards And is therfore called naturall vigor or els fortitude otherwise it is taken for the constancy of the minde and so it is termed a morall vertue wherefore by the assent of the Philosophers it deserueth the vppermost roome and the greatest dignitie amōgst morall vertues for two considerations First in respect of the primate and chiefest man whose minde attaineth this vertue Secōdly in respect of the whole citie which he enioieth and in enioying defendeth her territories and turrets aduenturing any enterprise for the security thereof The properties of this vertue consist in two things First in despising outward casualties not beeing moued to admire thereat in admiring not to desire or wish any thing but what is honest holding the flagge of defiance against the allure and becke of fortune suffering al things patiently if any thing happen bitter or grieuous which is a token of an inuincible minde as Cicero saith Si quid obtigerit aequo animo paratoque morear neque enim turpis mors forti viro potest accidere neque immatura consulari nec misera sapienti The second is that if thou art of that minde and courage see thou imploy thy selfe in those thinges which are most difficult and full of perill which may as well cōserue the life of man as sundry other things thereunto appertaining that it may be said as it was of a certaine Philosopher who being busied touching his countreys affaires and pleading truce for his friends liues hapned to fall into the lapse of his enemies and hauing many cowardly souldiers who regarding neither their friends liues nor their owne countreys security most timerously flying demaunded of this valiant mā what they should do to whom hee answered that they should report to those that were aliue that he valiantly fighting for their security died and I will in like sort report to the dead that you escaped cowardly as being the last in the field and first in flight We see therefore that courage and magnanimity are daunted with no danger and yet conquer