Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	service_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	98	3	9.4064	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78017	Balzac's remaines, or, His last letters· Written to severall grand and eminent persons in France. Whereunto are annexed the familiar letters of Monsieur de Balzac to his friend Monsieur Chapelain. Never before in English.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; Chapelain, Jean, 1595-1674.; Dring, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing B616; Thomason E1779_1; ESTC R209057	331,826	458

bestow on me but I had only one heart to give you the propriety of which I offered to you eighteen years ago and you had gain'd it sometime before It is true the present was but trivial I am ashamed to put you in mind now that great hearts are so necessary in great enterprizes and unless you reckon a great deal of passion and zeal for something I should not in time of War have mention'd a toy of so little use as that Yet my Lord is there no place for a violent passion in your service Cannot a zealous spirit produce some thoughts couragious enough to venter beyond the prospect of our present age and more Noble then to injure the glory of your great Name There are some persons over-credulons in my favour as to imagine so and I were very happy if their perswasions were not upon bad grounds As it is the most ambitious of all my designes so it is also the most ardent of all my desires But herein I must confess I can but little satisfie my self For what ever indulgent friends say I have little encouragement to believe from the view of my sufficiencies I discover neither a Mine nor a Bank in my brain to suffice for the recompence of supream vertue for requitall of heroicke actions and for the price of that which is inestimable On the other side I want that other facultie which descends from above and is called Enthusiasme The muses do not answer me at all times when I call them and I have often times begun Poems that ended at the Invocation It is possible I shall be better inspired for the future The excellencies of invention may at length be infused into me from Heaven and I may have my part of those illuminations it sends down to our brethren of the Academy I attend this happy hour of inspiration with impatience that I may employ it well and I cannot live contented till I have testified by some eminent act of gratitude pardon that eminent upon this occasion that I am as I ought to be My LORD Your c. Feb. 25. 1645. LETTER VIII To my Lord the Arch-Bishop of Thoulose My Lord THE successes of which I receiv'd information from your Letter redoun'd so much to your glory that Honouring you perfectly as I do I could not receive them with a moderate joy You have had justice at length of the Senate but it was the same Senate that did it you You do not only receive the just Honours that are due to you but even with the consent of them who disputed them with you by one and the same victory you have gain'd both your cause and your adversaries affection So though the conquest be desireable but the peace far better nothing should be wanting to your satisfaction who have obtained at once both the Good and the Better It remaines now my Lord that you enjoy this faire calme and these dayes of Serenity you have made such that is employ them all in that harvest that respects you and in the conduct of that flock which Jesus CHRIST hath entrusted to your care If you would you might have climb'd to Glory by other steps But all things being considered this is the surest and shortest for him that aimes at nothing but Heaven Could you exceed Cardinal Baronio in the solidity of your learning yet it is better to follow Cardinal Borromeo in the Sanctity of your Life and be the subject of others writings then the Historian of their actions How happy do I esteem the meanest labourers that you use in your great work and I cannot express how it troubles me to be perpetually desirous of being with you and yet to stick fast here and to be able to profess to you only with wishes and idle passions I know not when that I am more then any person in the World My Lord Your c. Jul. 25. 1633. LETTER IX To the same My Lord I Perceive there is no possibility for me to execute my grand enterprize or to effect what I have had in designe these ten yeares My journey to Languedoc is likely to become the exercise of a man that stirs not or the dreame of one awake If Heaven will have it so I shall at least have this happiness nothing can hinder me the enjoying in my mind the contentment which I fancy My imagination that hath power to bring me neer to places where I desire to be walks me continually round about this distant happiness and puts me into possession of one of the apartments of your Palace and soon after lodges me even in your Library O how I contemne the Jasper and guildings of the Escuriall when I am in that Cabinet This indeed is to inhabite a more Noble and stately Court to be the guest of an infinite number of rare souls and blessed intelligences where after a repast of Tanzies and Mellons the entertainment might be with light and truth I do not seek out high words to abuse them I employ them in their proper and naturall signification for what is there My Lord which the desire of knowledge and ambition of learning can imagine exquisite and rare but is to be found either in your books or conversation those three or four hours I had the honour to pass with you presented to me the riches of ages and antiquity you taught me things which not only the commonalty of the learned are ignorant of but such as it may be the Princes of the Schools understand not The severall manuscripts your goodness daign'd to shew me left so faire an impression of Christianity upon my soul that immediately I divorced my self from my old Loves and bad adieu to all the muses that are not holy Since that time I speak nothing but of the Primitive Church and the Oecumenicall Councells and you have so alienated me from Pagan-Rome that in those places of History where I meet with Aquilae I am sometimes ready to change it into Labarum A communication of such advantage deserves to be sought though it were at the end of the World and a thousand leagues are nothing to be travelled for it To confess freely the voyages of the Graecian Philosophers into Aegypt do very much reproach my immobilitie It is necessary that I rouze up this Lethargy or to speak more humanely that I prop up this weakness and provide redress to this infirmity and since it is impossible it should endure a Coach unless in a Downe or a Meadow I am at this instant going to purchase a Litter to make it more capable of the journey and transport me without disturbance to the feet of a greater Master then Gamaliel The ambition of a spirit cured of the Court may well be terminated there where I shall receive your answers to my Questions after I have rendred you my respects and sworne to you in the presence of Eusebius Theodoret and such like kind of witnesses that I am ever perfectly My Lord Your