Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	bear_v	young_a	youth_n	79	3	7.9158	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30108	Philocophus, or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips : upon the same ground ... that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue / by I.B., sirnamed the Chirosopher.	J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing B5469; ESTC R3977	76,261	240

is as words to cogitations Yet this order is not of necessity that speech must bee learnt first and afterwards Writing should succeede to signifie our words rather then words writing there being no naturall necessity for it so that the contrary cannot bee done But it happens rather by reason of the facility and because men that are deprived of no●● of their senses are apt sooner to speake then to write the tongue being sooner fitted by nature for that employment then the hand for this But the cleane contrary may be done as appeares in the atchievement of this honourable Gentleman and others mentioned in this book For as they who have their hearing d●● as the readyer and better way b●●in 〈◊〉 speech so they who are deafe doe best begin at writing Therefore neither of them hath a naturall necessity but it seemes by the nature of the thing that the reason and account of speech and writing is the same but that they have a greater facility of speaking who enjoy all their senses but they who want their hearing may have writing in stead of speech and the notice of things accrues to them by sight as to others by hearing So that speech is as it were a silent and audible writing and writing is a visible and permanent speech and withall so missive that where the eare is absent we can send our mind by writing to a friend why not then when the faculty of hearing is wanting as in deafe men may we not send a message of intelligence to his eye in writing since the eare and eye are knowne to exchange objects without any robery in case of necessity transferring their sensitive rights one unto another The youngest brother of the said Sir Edward Gostwick is in the same condition being yet an excellent Limbn●r invited to that art by his Genius or some signalitie of spirit observed in him Painting and Limbning next to writing having beene ever thought of excellent use and to afford singular contentation to those that are borne deafe and dumbe And therefore Q. Pedius the Nephew of Q. Pedius a man of Consular degree and one that had tryumphed by Caesar Dictator made Co-heir with Augustus being dumbe by nature Messala the Oratour of whose familie the Grandmother of the childe was descended being carefull how the Boy should be brought up after mature advise and deliberation thought good that he should by signes and imitation be trained up in the Art of Painting And Augustus Caesar approved of his judgement and advice herein and in truth the young Gentleman being apt thereto although he dyed a youth was growne a great proficient in that Art Sir John Keyes Master of the Ordinance to King James had two Sisters who were both borne Deafe and Dumb they could write and were very ingenious to imitate any kinde of needle work they saw Sir Miles Fleetwood hath two handsome Gentlewomen to his daughters both borne deafe and dumbe De La Barre the rich Dutch Merchant who lived at Eeling in Middlesex had two daughters born deafe and dumb they were both marryed A Friend of mine who was once in their companies at Brainford their Husbands also being there told me he did much admire at their dexterity of perception for by the least motion of their Husbands countenance or hand they presently conceived of their meaning Master Freeman of London Skinner had two daughters both deafe and dumbe One Master Diet a Parson in Staffordshire hath a Brother and Sister both deaf and dumbe One Thomas Xing Farmer of Langley in the County of Essex had by one woman a sonne and three daughters all deafe and dumbe One in Osmaston within a mile of Darby had foure sonnes and all of them were borne deafe and dumbe One John Gardiner of Thaxted in Essex hath a sonne and daughter both deafe and dumbe his sonne Robert Gardiner is a Tradesman here in Towne and one of the most notable examples I have discovered for proofe of the feeling of sounds and whom to the satisfaction and admiration of some Friends of mine I have shewed and exposed to a philosophicall view and tryall And as I am informed by a Merchant of credit living in London who hath a sonne deafe and dumbe there was in Lincolneshire one Master Dallison a Gentleman that used grazing who had three sons born deaf and dumb who made them all 3 Graziers and they proved the craftiest in that way that the Country ever bred for they were very expert at their pen which they managed in all their affaires with singular readinesse using it as it is indeed for a kinde of supplementall speech I am informed by an accomplisht Gentleman that knew them a learned Friend of mine they were so accurate at the pen that they could write the Creed in the compasse of a farthing which he hath seene fairely so written by them One Master Adams in the East of Kent had two daughters very handsome proper Gentlewomen which were all the children he had and they were both borne deafe and dumbe A Husbandman of Sherington within a mile of Newport in the County of Buckingham had a sonne and a daughter both borne deafe and dumbe A Husbandman living at Tilstone in Cheshire about seven mile from Chester had two daughters Twins that were borne deafe and dumbe having but two eyes betweene them one of the eyes of each of them being originally blinde they lived both to be old women Some Cheshire men of my acquaintance who knew them both affirme that they had a very strange and admirable nimblenesse of perception both to understand others and to deliver their owne mindes by signes which happened without doubt unto them through the marvelous recompence that nature affordeth in such cases For having but one eye the sight of that was certainely very accurate Aristotle is of opinion that deafnesse and dumbnesse are privations onely hapning unto men Yet there be who are of another minde for that Horse who never moves nor prickes up his eares at any noise or sound and useth to cast back his eares is deafe and that horse who in the companie of those he hath used to travell with never neighes is dumbe Yet if a Horse were foaled deafe hee would not be consequently dumbe because the speech of beasts is naturall unto them and hath no dependencie upon the eare and so it cannot be excluded by a privation of hearing through any naturall deafenesse Observation III. HE was borne deafe and so consequently he was dumbe They who from their first conformation and birth are deafe they likewise are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or at least live 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hence surdus quasi seoridus i. sine ore and mutus quia eo sensu minutus The chiefe cause why they who are borne deafe are consequently dumbe is supposed to be the sympathy betweene the instruments of hearing and speaking the reason of whose strict society and communion is not knowne to all men which according to