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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	lie_v	speak_v	1,709	5	4.3933	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29860	Hydriotaphia, urn-burial, or, A discours of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk together with the Garden of Cyrus, or, The quincuncial lozenge, or network of plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered : with sundry observations / by Thomas Browne.	Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.	1669 (1669)	Wing B5155; ESTC R35415	73,609	80

in a Cloud of Opinions A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world might handsomly illustrate our ignorance of the next whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's Den and are but Embryon Philosophers Pythagoras escape in the fabulous Hell of Dante among that swarm of Philosophers wherein whilest we meet with Plato and Socrates Cato is to be found in no lower place then Purgatory Among all the set Epicurus is most considerable whom men make honest without an Elysium who contemned life without encouragement of Immortality and making nothing after Death yet made nothing of the King of terrours Were the Happiness of the next World as closely apprehended as the Felicities of this it were a Martyrdome to live and unto such as consider none hereafter it must be more then Death to die which makes us amazed at those Audacities that durst be Nothing and return into their Chaos again Certainly such spirits as could contemn Death when they expected no better Being after would have scorned to live had they known any And therefore we applaud not the judgement of Machiavel that Christianity makes men Cowards or that with the confidence of bat half dying the despised Vertues of Patience and Humility have abased the spirits of men which Pagan Principles exalted but rather it hath regulated the wildness of Audacities in the attempts grounds and eternal sequels of Death wherein men of the boldest spirits are often prodigiously temerarious Nor can we extenuate the Valour of ancient Martyrs who contemned Death in the uncomfortable scene of their lives and in their decrepit Martyrdomes did probably lose not many months of their days or parted with Life when it was scarce worth the living For beside that long time past holds no consideration unto a slender time to come they had no small disadvantage from the constitution of Old age which naturally makes men fearfull and complexionally superannuated from the bold and couragious thoughts of Youth and fervent years But the contempt of Death from corporal animosity promoteth not our Felicity They may sit in the Orchestra and noblest Seats of Heaven who have held up shaking hands in the Fire and humanely contended for Glory Meanwhile Epicurus lies deep in Dante 's Hell wherein we meet with Tombs enclosing Souls which denied their Immortalities But whether the vertuous Heathen who lived better then he spake or erring in the Principles of himself yet lived above Philosophers of more specious Maximes lie so deep as he is placed at least so low as not to rise against Christians who believing or knowing that Truth have lastingly denied it in their practice and conversation were a Quere too sad to insist on But all or most apprehensions rested in Opinions of some future Being which ignorantly or coldly believed beget those perverted Conceptions Ceremonies Sayings which Christians pity or laugh at Happy are they which live not in that disadvantage of time when men could say little for Futurity but from Reason whereby the noblest mindes fell often upon doubtful Deaths and melancholick Dissolutions With these hopes Socrates warmed his doubtful spirits against that cold Potion and Cato before he durst give the fatal stroak spent part of the night in reading the Immortality of Plato thereby confirming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt It is the heaviest stone that Melancholy can throw at a man to tell him he is at the end of his Nature or that there is no farther State to come unto which this seems progressional and otherwise made in vain Without this accomplishment the natural expectation and desire of such a State were but a fallacy in nature unsatisfied Considerators would quarrel the justice of their Constitutions and rest content that Adam had fallen lower whereby by knowing no other Original and deeper Ignorance of themselves they might have enjoyed the Happiness of inferiour Creatures who in tranquillity possess their Constitutions as having not the apprehension to deplore their own Natures and being framed below the circumference of these Hopes or cognition of better being the Wisedom of God hath necessitated their contentment But the superiour ingredient and obscured part of our selves whereunto all present Felicities afford no resting contentment will be able at last to tell us we are more then our present selves and evacuate such Hopes in the fruition of their own Accomplishments CHAP. V. NOW since these dead Bones have already out-lasted the living ones of Methuselah and in a yard under Ground and thin walls of Clay out-worn all the strong and specious Buildings above it and quietly rested under the Drums and Tramplings of three Conquests what Prince can promise such diuturnity unto his Reliques or might not gladly say Sic ego componi versus in oss a velim Time which antiquates Antiquities and hath an Art to make Dust of all things hath yet spared these minor Monuments In vain we hope to be known by open and visible Conservatories when to be unknown was the means of their Continuation and obscurity their Protection If they died by violent hands and were thrust into their Urns these Bones became considerable and some old Philosophers would honour them whose Souls they conceived most pure which were thus snatched from their Bodies and to retain a stronger propension unto them whereas they weariedly left alanguishing Corps and with faint desires of Re-union If they fell by long and aged decay yet wrapt up in the bundle of Time they fell into indistinction and made but one blot with Infants If we begin to die when we live and long life be but a prolongation of death our Life is a sad composition we live with Death and die not in a moment How many Pulses made up the life of Methuselah were work for Archimedes Common Counters sum up the life of Moses his name Our days become considerable like petty sums by minute accumulations where numerous Fractions make up but small round Numbers and our days of a Span long make not one little Finger If the nearness of our last necessity brought a nearer conformity unto it there were a happiness in Hoary hairs and no calamity in Half senses But the long habit of living indisposeth us for dying when Avarice makes us the sport of Death when David grew politickly Cruel and Solomon could hardly be said to be the Wisest of men But many are too early old and before the date of age Adversity stretcheth our days Misery makes Almena's nights and Time hath no wings unto it But the most tedious being is that which can unwish it self content to be nothing or never to have been which was beyond the Male-content of Job who cursed not the day of his Life but his Nativity content to have so far been as to have a title to future being although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life and as it were an Abortion What Song the Sirens