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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	figure_n	matter_n	motion_n	3,415	5	9.0997	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53051	Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1662 (1662)	Wing N859; ESTC R27520	144,720	333

the Worst so the Contemplating Life is the Best and the Poetical World the Pleasant'st for all Wise Witty Learn'd Ingenious Good and Pious men dwell all in the Contemplative Life and for the most do Lovers of all Sorts especially Amorous Lovers for they take more Pleasure to Think of their Mistresses than to Speak with their Mistresses for they can Entertain the Idea of their Mistresses a Long time with great Delight whereas they grow Soon weary of their Real Persons Thus the Contemplative Life is Best for true Pleasure and Delight is not in the Senses but in the Mind for Delights and Pleasures are but Passengers through the Senses and Inhabitors in the Mind besides whatsoever the Senses have Injoy'd Lives in the Mind after their Injoyment and though the like is for Pains and Surfeits yet the Mind may Fling them out or if it Fling them not out yet it may Fling them aside from Troubling it and though the Mind cannot Satisfie the Gross Appetites of the Senses yet those Satisfactions Live in the Mind when as the Senses though they would cannot longer Injoy them the truth is that the Senses are but as Hired Labourers not Owners they are Actors not Possessors for the Mind is the Lord of all and not only Possessor and Lord of all the Satisfactions of the Appetites and the Objects and Subjects of the Senses but it is Lord of that which the Senses cannot know being beyond their Capacity having a Power of Forming Composing Altering Changing Making Continuing Prolonging Keeping Putting away or Destroying whatsoever it Pleases All which makes the Contemplative Life the Best being Happiest and Pleasant'st and as for the Poetical World it is the most Splendorous World that is for it is Composed of all Curiosities Excellencies Varieties Numbers and Unities In short it is a World that is Extracted out of Infinite Wit Ingeniosity Judgement Experiences Understanding Knowledge and good Nature it is the Heaven and Contemplation is the Spiritual Life in this Poetical World Of Parts and Wholes Fellow Students THe Question in the School at this time is whether a Part taken from a Whole remains a Part after the Dividing or Separating or becomes a VVhole of it Self when it is Divided Some are of the Opinion that after a Part is Divided from the Whole it is no longer a Part of such a Whole either of Figure or Matter but is a Whole of it Self but if it be as we believe that the Bodies of Men shall have a Resurrection then it Proves that the several Divided Separated and Dispersed Parts with their Joyning and Consistent Motions and Essential Powers shall Meet and Joyn to make the Whole Body which Proves that although Parts be Separated yet they are Parts of such or such a Whole Body or Figure also they remain distinctly in Nature as Parts to such a Body otherwise they could not Return at the Resurrection so Readily to Compose the VVhole by the Joyning and Uniting of every Part into One Whole Body But to Conclude as all Creatures are Parts of Infinite Matter so the Divided Parts of every Creature are Parts the Whole Figur or Body of every Creature and as there is Infinite Matter so Infinite Creatures and Infinite Parts and Infinite Figures Of every and In every Part and Whole An other of the same Subject Fellow Students THe Former Student Indeavours to Prove that Parts pertain to their Wholes and I may Indeavour to Prove that Wholes pertain to Parts as much as Parts pertain to Wholes for there can be no Whole without Parts nor no Part without a Whole but howsoever all Parts and Wholes of every Creature were from all Eternity and so Consequently shall be to all Eternity for as they were so they will be for if such Matter Motions Powers Creatures Parts and Figures had not been formerly in Nature they would nor could not have been in Nature's Power at this time to Produce them but some might Question what Nature is I might Answer that Nature is Matter Motion and Figure Then some might Question what Power Nature hath It might be Answered Nature hath Power to Create and Uncreate Again others might Ask who gave Nature that Power It might be Answer'd that Natures Power proceeds from Infinite and Eternity and that it is not a Gift and some may Question how Infinite and Eternity came but that is such an Infinite question as not to be Answered for whatsoever is Infinite and Eternal is God which is something that cannot be Described or Conceived nor Prescribed or Bound for it hath neither Beginning nor Ending Of the Soul Fellow Students THe Argument at this time is to Prove whether the Soul be a Thing or Nothing a Substance or no Substance some of our Fellow Students indeavour to prove the Soul Nothing as not to be a Substance but as they call it an Incorporeal Thing because it Alters or Forms every Thing to its own Likeness or as it Pleases for say they whatsoever the Senses bring Corporeal the Soul makes Incorporeal but it may be Answered that Fire makes all Things or at least most Things or Substances like it Self so long as it Works on Combustible Matter and shall we say or can we believe that Fire is an Incorporeal Thing because it Transforms most Things into its own Likeness Wherefore my Opinion is that the Soul is a Substance yet such a Substance as to be the Rarest and Purest Substance in Nature which makes it so apt to Ascend as to make the Brain the Residing place it is the Celestial Part of Man whereas the Body is but the Terrestrial Part. A Speech concerning Studies Fellow Students VVE Study to Argue and Argue to Study for the chief Design of our Study is only to Dispute either by the Tongue or Pen or Both but all Disputes are more full of Contradictions than Informations and all Contradictions Confound the Sense and Reason at least Obstruct the Understanding and Delude the Judgement for it keeps the One from a Clear Insight and the Other from a Setled Conclusion so as we Argue rather to make our Selves Fools than to make our Selves Wise. An other of the same Subject Fellow Students THe Former Student Speaks against Arguing and Disputing and so in Effect against Study and Learning but to what Purpose should we Study or Learn if we did not Inform each other of our Conceptions or at least our Opinions which are Bred or Learned by our Studies also what Advantage should VVise or Subtil or Eloquent Orators or great Schoolmen have if they had not Studious Disciples to Follow them Admire Praise and Imitate them But as it is Honourable to be Learn'd so it is Wise to Learn for Knowledge is gotten by Information and the best Informers are Wise Books which Books must first be Read and Studied before they can be Understood also Arguing and Disputing is a great Increase of Knowledge for it Distinguishes Truth from Falshood Clears the Understanding