Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	country_n	province_n	unite_a	1,239	5	10.1815	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51780	The present state of Europe briefly examined and found languishing occasioned by the greatness of the French monarchy for cure whereof a remedy, from former examples, is humbly proposed to His Royal Highness William Henry Prince of Orange and to the great convention of the Lords and Commons now assembled at Westminster : wrote upon occasion of the House of Common's vote to raise 8000001 to equip a fleet for the year 1671 mov'd thereunto by the pretended march of the French army toward the marine parts of Flanders / by Thomas Manley, Esq.	Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.	1689 (1689)	Wing M445; ESTC R18269	11,718	20

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