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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	great_a	world_n	2,360	5	4.4184	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57633	A philosophicall essay for the reunion of the langvages, or, The art of knowing all by the mastery of one	Rose, Henry, fl. 1656-1675.	1675 (1675)	Wing R1934; ESTC R229455	21,032	86

suspicion of having a master Thus you see in grosse and generall the whole designe exprest in as few words as the brevity of the subject would permitt me And However rationall it may be in it selfe yet it wants not its adversaryes Some with a great deal of heat plead that if this method acquiring the Languages hath any thing in it that is Curious by way of speculation it is however uselesse enough in relation to its practice since Custome and Conversation only say they is the great Master of Language and that we must intirely relye upon memory and the assiduity of constant and resolv'd industry Others confesse that it hath in earnest its advantages but doubt much of the possibility of its execution hardly beleeving that the Languages have in good truth such an accord and resemblance as I suppose they have or that there is a possibility for the witt of man now to discover it By way of reply to the first I confesse that one thing I wonder at is that persons so knowing and ingenuous should so highly declare themselves against the judgement in favour of the memory I have a very great regard to their qualitie and worth but cannot submitt my selfe to their opinion The only way as I imagine to Learn the Languages and that in what number we please to do it with ease without taediousnesse confusion trouble and losse of time and without the common hazard of forgetting them with as much ease as we acquire them with difficulty and to be master of them all in such a manner as shall rellish nothing that is mean or not becomeing a Rationall man is in one word to attribute more to the judging and reflecting faculty then to the memory for if the memory depend and relye only upon the reflexions of the judgement we have no reason to expect much from its single Conduct for however plausible it may appear it will always beslow limited confus'd and faithlesse its laction is not vigorous enough to take us off from those fatigues that distast our most likely enterprizes and its efforts to weak and Languishing in a little time to execute a designe of so large a compasse as this being so determin'd as it is it is impossible it should reduce so great a number of Languages so distanc't in appearance one from another If at any time it seem extraordinary in an action its Species are soon displac't by their multitude and when they are rang'd in the best order imaginable they continue not so long without being either effact by those that supervene or disappearing of themselves haveing nothing that can fixe and retaine them So that the Languages being of so vast an extent there is no reason that the memory alone should be confided to for their acquest unlesse we could be content to sacrifice an infinite space of time to the Sole knowledge of words which being so valuable as it ought to be to us may be imployd with more discretion and successe either towards the cognizance of things or the management of businesse To satisfie others I have nothing more at present to say to them but that if the designe shall appear to them at first sight either fantasticall or temerarious the execution will soon justifie me and perhaps convince them that it is not always rationall positively to passe a judgement upon any thing before a close and a narrow search and that we ought not hastily to despaire of any thing the gaining of which hath not been attempted all imaginable wayes Last of all as I do not beleeve my selfe to be deceiv'd in that which make up the grosse and main of the designe so I do not expect that all that I shall advance in the sequel upon this connexion of the Languages should be receiv'd by all for uncontrouleable truths of which I my selfe am sufficiently perswaded I am too well acquainted with the nature of truth to beleeve my selfe so succesfull as to have alwayes discover'd that in the most imbroyld and the most doubtfull affaires of the world yet I confesse that notwithstanding that great respect that is due to it I have in some cases lesse regarded it when it did not appear to comply with the capacityes of ordinary men persuading my selfe that conjecture well fram'd and adjusted by a plausible Air is more rellishing to ingenious persons then an obscure and fainting truth of which sort there is a very great number in the present subject I propose then to the Learned this new systeme of the Languages not as an incontestable Thesis in all its parts but only as an Hypothesis not altogether irrationall and which besides hath this particular advantage that although it should be the falsest thing in the world in speculation it may at least be allowable in the practice And I hope to receive the same favour that persons that were most obstinately resolv'd against his Hypothesis granted Copernicus by their confession that let it be never so false it is however the best accommodated to use and Astronomicall supputations FINIS