Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	husband_n	sister_n	wife_n	31,415	5	10.2119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09731	The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.	Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?	1699 (1699)	Wing P2064; ESTC R181771	227,423	431

Q. Give example out of some Orator A. Cicero in his Oration hath brought forth a certain earnest affection from these Relates Now these are grave saith he Wife of the Son in law Step-mother of the Son anp Bawd of the Daughter Q. Give example out of some Poet A. All this Ovid hath effected maniefestly in his description of the Iron Age Met. 1. Ne doth the guest safe in his Inn remain His Host him troubles who doth him retain Sisters ev'n from their Brethren are not free The Husband longs the death of 's Wife to see She hateth him and ' gainst him doth conspire The cursed Stepdame's always in an Ire The Son before his time doth's Fathers years enquire Q. But the Argument of such Relations hath nothing contrary yea it rather argueth mutual causes as thou art my Father I therefore am thy Son how then appeareth the Contraries A. When I say I am Father I am not therefore thy Son then are the Contraries true CAP. 15. Adverses Q. What are adverses A. Adverses are Contraries affirming which are perpetually adverse among themselves Give example out of some Poet A. Aeneid 11. No health in war we all desire Peace Q. Give further example A. White and black hot and cold vertue and vice are opposed Q. Give example out of some Orator A. Parad. 1. Cont. Epe Yet they do hold strongly and defend accurately that pleasure is the chief good which to me truly doth seem to be the voice of Beasts not of Men when as whether God or Nature as I may say the mother of all things hath given thee a soul then which nothing is more excellent nothing more divine dost thou so cast and throw down thy self as that thou thinkest there is no difference betwixt thee and the four-footed Beasts Q. Wherein consists the force of this example A. Cicero hath opposed beasts and men Adverses pleasure is the good of beasts and therefore of men Q. Give another example out of some Poet A. So Liberty and Servitude in Tib. Lib. 2. So Servitude I see prepared for me Yet Parents Freedom would far better be Q. Give example out of an Orator A. Pro Marcel For Temerity is never joyned with Wisdom neither is Chance admitted to Counsel CAP. 16. Contradicents Q. Having spoken of contraries affirming we are come to contraries denying what are they then A. Contraries denying are such of which one saith the other denieth the same Q. What are the kindes A. They are Contradicents or Privants Q. What are Contradicents A. Contradicents are Contraries denying of which one denieth every where Q. Give example A. Just not just a creature not a creature it is it is not These are Contradicents Q. Give example out of some Orator A. Pro Murena The sentence of Cato and Cicero are contraries this of the Stoicks that man of the Academicks The Dialogue is in these words Thou hast known nothing yea something but not all things Thou hast done nothing meerly for thanks yet refuse not thanks when as thine office and trust requireth it Be not moved with mercy in condemning But yet there is some praise of humanity Stand in thine own opinion except a better should overcome Q. Give example from some Poet A. Mart. lib. 2. Th' art fair Fabulla rich and all 's a maid Can you deny 't is truth that I have said But if thou boastest of thy self too much Th' art neither fair a virgin nor yet rich Q. Give another example out of some Orator A. Cicero primo Tusc Forceth Atticus the Epicure by this argument to confess that the Dead were not miserable if they were not at all as the Epicures believe I had rather saith he thou shouldest fear Cerberus then speak so inconsiderately Atticus why Marcus that which thou deniest that thou sayest Where is thy wit For when as thou sayest he is miserable thou then sayest he is which is not Then after long disputation Atticus said go to now I grant that those which are dead are not miserable because thou hast forced me to confess that they be not at all lest they should be miserable Q. Give another example A. Terrence in Ev. Phedria frameth his speech to Dorus when as he had affirmed that which he denied afterwards After a manner saith he he saith after a manner he denieth CAP. 17. Privants Q. What are Privants A. Privants are contraries denying of which one denieth in the same Subject only in which the Affirmative of its own nature is Q. What is the Affirmative called A. The Habit. Q. And what the Negative A. Privation Q. Make this plainer A. Motion and Rest Drunkenness and Sobriety are comprised under this Head Q. Give example A. Mart. Lib. 3. Th' art drunken sure sober thou would'st not do 't Q. What may further be under this Head A. To be blinde and to see Give example A. Pro Celio There is therefore one of this family and he truly is greatly blinde for he shall take no grief who shall not see her Q. What may further be under this Head A. Poverty and Riches are thus opposed Q. Give example A. Mart. Lib. 5. Poor shalt thou be Emilian if poor Wealth 's never given but to the rich before Q. What further A. Death and Life A. Give example A. Cont. Mil. Sir ye still O revengers of this mans death whose life if you thought you could restore would you Q. What further A. Silence and Speech Give example A. Primo Cat. What expectest thou the authority of the Speakers whose silence thou beholdest to be their pleasures Q. What more A. Mortality and Immortality Q. Give example A. Pro Marc. I grieve when as the Common Wealth ought to be immortal that it consisteth of one mortal life And this sufficeth to be spoken of disagreeing from whence every thing may differ from another by certain means CAP. 18. Equalls Q. Simple Arguments were agreeings and disagreeings we are now come unto Comparatives what are Comparatives therefore A. Comparatives are those which are compared amongst themselves Q. How are they manifested A. Although they be equally known by the nature of Comparison yet one to another is more known and illustrated then another and oftentimes are judged by shorter notes sometimes distinguished by fuller parts Q. What may these parts be called A. They are named the Proposition and Redition Q. May not Comparatives also argue Fictions A. Yes Comparatives to argue feigned things and do cause trust Q. What be the kindes of Comparisons A. Comparison is in Quantity or Quality Q. What is Quantity A. Quanity is that whereby is shewed how much the thing compared is Q. What be the kindes of Quantity A. Equalls or Unequalls Q. What are Equalls A. Equalls are those of which there is one Quantity Q. What is an equal Argument then A. An equal Argument is when an equal is explicated by an equal Q. What are the Notes of it A. Even equal like the same that so much the more

to them thus To the Right Honourable A Viscount was formerly the Lievtenant to an Earl so that their Dignity hath continued next to that of an Earl ever since and indeed between a Viscount and a Baron or Lord there is no difference used in making addresses to them We speak to them thus May it please your Honour my Lord. We write thus To the Honourable A Knight is the next Degree of honour being more peoperly a Military Dignity but of late very much confused They bear the Title of Right Worshipful We make our dress thus May it please your Worship We write thus To the Right Worshipful ESquire was formerly but he that bore the Shield and Lance of a Knight before him It is now the next Degree of Honour to the Knight and now so much used by Gentlemen that he who stiles not himself Esquire is hardly a Gentleman He bears the Title of Worshipful And we write to him thus To the Worshipful J. D. Esquire Note here that the same Titles are appliable to the Wives as to the Husbands and though the Daughter of an Earl marry an inferior person yet she doth not lose her Title which is Right Honorable In the writing of familiar Epistles there are sundry varieties which ingenuity will easily apply to his occasion For example at the beginning of a Letter these Expressions do very often offer themselves Honour'd Sir Dear Sir Dear Friend Learned Sir Madam Dear Lady Dearest Joy of my Life My Heart Fairest Delight of my Heart These Subscriptions also are usual To great Persons Your Graces Your Honors most faithfull and most obedient Servant Your Excellencies most humbly devoted Servant Your Worships most faithful Servant In familiar Letters thus The admirer of your Vertues Madam The Honorer Adorer Worshipper Of your Perfection Of your Vertues Your most affectionate Friend and Servant Your assure Friend Your most obedient Servant Your most obliged Friend and Servant Your eternally engaged Servant Your Creature Your faithful Servant Yours for ever Yours to command eternally Yours while I have life Yours while I have a being Your faithful though contemned Servant For Superscription these Forms may be used To my much respected Friend To my much Honored Friend For my much Valued Friend For my much esteemed Friend For my approved To the truly Noble To the truly Vertuous To the most incomparable Lady To the fair Hands of To the most accomplisht To the mirror of Perfection To the most lovely ornament of Nature There is something more to be observed concerning the Dignity of places For a Knight being made General of an Army obtains the title of Your Excellency though but a Lord Knight or meaner man by birth A Lieutenant-General is Right Honorable A Major-General Right Honorable A Collonel is Honorable and we give him the title of Your Honor. A Captain is Right worshipful From a Son to Father Your most dutiful and obedient Son From a Daughter Your loving and obedient Daughter From a Husband Your most affectionate Husband till death From a Wife Your faithful and loving Wife till death From a Servant Your most obedient and faithful Servant Forms for the concluding of Letters BUt whatsoever happen I shall be no other then c. I shall endeavour with the best of my care and industry whenever you desire the proofs of the obedience of c. If it could be perswaded that my absence gave you any disquiet or that my presence could afford you any service you should soon perceive by my speedy return how much I am c. If I am able to do you service there wants nothing but that you should command me the imployment there being nothing which I more desire than to witness my self continually c. There being no man who hath a firmer resolution to render you all the testimonies of a willing service in the quality of c. Let this for the present satisfie you till I shall meet with some better opportunity to shew how much I am c. The only happiness that I expect is that I may be able to change my words into effects that I might shew you how much I am really c. I shall now free your patience from reading any more give me leave only to make this conclusion that I am and shall be c. For every time I reflect upon your great obligations I am impatient of an opportunity to shew my self I cannot pass away the unquiet of my mind by any other way than by seeking occasions to testifie how much I am c. Be pleased to take this for a real truth from him who hath made an Oath to live and die c. This is the advice and friendly Counsel of c. And I hope there is nothing shall debar me from continuing for the time to come what hitherto I have been c. Neither is there any thing that I would omit whereby I might give you an assurance of fidelity to your Commands as protesting to live and die c. But I desire to testifie to you rather by words than by discourse how much I am c. Sir I beg you to accept this testimony of my gratitude and my earnest desires to be c. I never reckon up the Catalogue of my friends but I presently call to mind how much I am obliged to give you this Subscription c. My gratitude is as necessary as my being and I can sooner not be then not be most truly c. For I never think of your favours but it renews the remembrance of my engagements to be c. Though I have a very great press and urgency of business at present upon me yet shall my occasions never be so violent but that I will have leisure both to be and to tell you that I am c. I shall be contented to be counted ungrateful when I am less c. Sir if you doubt the truth of my service I beseech you to make use of that absolute power which you have acquired over me to oblige my endeavours to all manner of proofs that I am c. Be pleased as yet to take my bare word till I can give you further testimonies how much I am c. Though I am debarr'd your sight yet I hope I am not envied the happiness of giving you notice how passionately I am c. I will lose my life rather than my resolution to die c. If you knew with what impatience I expect a reply charity would oblige you to set at rest the disquiet mind of c. My resolution is to possess my self always c. There is none more interested in your concernments nor more participates in any satisfaction of yours than he that is by reason as well as inclination c. Could my endeavours take effect or my vows accomplishment you should not long reckon me in the number of your unprofitable servants for I am most assuredly c. Sir I know your high