Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	great_a	king_n	treaty_n	1,286	5	9.1447	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54288	New instructions to the guardian shewing that the last remedy to prevent the ruin, advance the interest, and recover the honour of this nation is I. a more serious and strict education of the nobility and gentry, II. to breed up all their younger sons to some calling and employment, III. more of them to holy orders, with a method of institution from three years of age to twenty one.	Penton, Stephen, 1639-1706.	1694 (1694)	Wing P1440; ESTC R5509	42,499	186

Chapters most useful for the Child's reading more particularly p. 74 Directions for learning Latin and Greek p. 74 Reasons considered why Children beyond Sea learn Latin sooner than here p. 75 The common Grammar and Accidence to be used tho' objected against by learned and judicious Men p. 77 Great Leisure and Patience advised to treat a Child with at the beginning p. 79 Directions for the next Eight Years Year after Year how to teach a Child Latin and Greek and fit him for the Vniversity by Fourteen not omitting between whiles the forementioned English Exercises p. 80 Dancing between whiles advised p. 91 The Third Stage From Fourteen to Twenty One p. 93 Short Directions for a Tutor to treat a young Gentleman newly brought to the Vniversity p. 93. The Practice of some Persons in sending their Sons to an Academy first and afterwards to the Vniversity discommended p. 100 To place him with a Country Minister instead of sending him to the Vniversity also discommended p. 100 As also sending him to some Protestant Vniversity with a foreign Tutor p. 101 The several Courses of Life young Gentlemen are to be grounded in according to their respective Talents and Conditions p. 102 Travailing with some Directions p. 102 Setling in the Country and acting there p. 108 Study of Physick p. 108 109 Civil-Law p. 110 Common-Law p. 111 Directions for a compleat Course in the Study of Divinity by the help of the Apparatus ad Theologiam written for that purpose p. 113 A Tutor to direct a young Nobleman or Gentleman in the study of Divinity advised as greatly useful p. 118 The Third Part. The Conclusion in behalf of Holy Orders ENcouragement for Persons of Quality to study Divinity p. 123 Objections why they do not study it answered p. 125 The Rural Clergy in many places neither beloved nor kindly used p. 126 Going to Law not a convenient Remedy p. 128 A Description of a Purs-proud Clown who oppresseth his Minister p. 130 131 Cheating the Parson thought no sin and the danger of it p. 133 Objection that many Clergy-men have much more than they deserve p. 134 135 That the Clergy live to high p. 136 That many of the Clergy are too Great p. 137 That the Inferiour Clergy are many of them Idle Ignorant Quarrel some and Loose p. 138 The Pattern of St. Ambrose and Theodosius p. 139 More Respect paid the Sacred Function all the World over than is here p. 140 If Noblemen's Sons were Clergy-Men their Interest would support the Function p. 142 Without some Amendment we must be ruined p. 143 A Word to the Wise THose English Gentlemen I mean whose Great Souls are griev'd when they consider how this Gallant Nation hath fool'd away that Honour which our Ancestors so dearly purchased We once made a greater noise in the World our Arms were Formidable where ever they came Conquest of whole Nations was easie We fed in Prison the Kings of those Countries we are afraid of Our assistance was often Courted and always Successful Happy were the People who could get the English on their side to Relieve distrested States and six tottering Crowns We rode in Pleasure-Boats on the Sea and knew no other Dangers but what were under Water In one Battle could make the Enemy send a Blank and give a Peace he was neither able to Force or Purchase Now what less than a Stoical Senseless Patience can bear a Reflection on the unhappy Change That in few Years I am ashamed to say how few from so great a steddiness of Gravity Honesty and Courage we were softned into Foppishness Dissembling and almost Cowardice To see Wisdom sold for Wit Veracity lost in Swearing To see Vice impudent and Vertue despised for singularity and almost as much Courage required to be a Good Man as would Take or Defend a Town To trace this Calamity through all its Causes is a subject too Melancholy for a thoughtful Man to be trusted with It must be confess'd the Hardships of the Civil War ruin'd the Fathers the Luxury following the Restauration spoiled the Sons and if a stricter Discipline doth not mend the Grandchildren we will resolve to be a By-word and an Hissing to French Dutch Scotch and all Mankind But perhaps Arguments from Honour may be too speculative I will try one taken from Interest and Force Self-Preservation at this time is very costly Wars thicken upon us and our Silver Mines run low A strict Education of Children is a good way to save and pay Taxes for Vertue is cheaper than Vice Tenderness and Indulgence feeds the Inclination to Gaiety which tends to Debauchery and ruine of a Family When you shall see the unsatiable Curiosity of a Child 's wanton Appetite everlastingly gratifi'd with whatsoever it craves and so craving thereby made infinite When Father and Mother shall fear to displease him as if the Child were wisest of all the three and were in good truth my Little Master without any Complement At Ten Years of Age when he should be formed to Wisdom he must once every day Hunt making his Horses and Dogs Companions instead of Servants and venture his Neek four or five hours at a time for Health's sake When perhaps this is a Person whom Providence designs for a Trustee in the Government of six Millions of People And what care can be enough for his Accomplishment What Wisdom History and Politicks what Integrity Oratory and Courage is required to understand and debate the true Interest of the Kingdom to discover and baffle the Fallacies of a designing Speecher to give the King seasonable and useful Counsel so serviceably to manage Foreign Ministers of State as to redeem us from the Scandal of that old true Jest of losing in a Treaty all we got in a Fight There are great Places of Trust and Profit in the Kingdom to be aimed at which Kings are many times forced to fill up with Persons of meaner Birth because forsooth Great Ones will not condescend to be Wise enough to manage them So that in conclusion besides the Service of the Publick the best way to keep up and encrease a Patrimony is to breed up Children Severely and fit them with Improvements suitable to their Quality This will make them able to live Wisely and within compass and bear the great Burthe●s the Publick Exigencies of our Affairs lay upon us And it will be worth all the Charges we are at for our present Defence if that Frugality and Wisdom which neither Morality nor Religion could teach Necessity at last should force us to And here I cannot pass by the Censure of an Humour too frequent among young Gentlemen mistaking Vanity and Profuseness for Generosity they despise and laugh at Parsimony and Thrift as qualities Sullen Sordid and Ungenteel those Qualities which are valued in other Countries and which made the Romans masters of the World and which have made the Venetians and the Dutch in Greatness equal to most Kingdoms in Europe And