Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	spirit_n	true_a	4,682	5	4.8641	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26733	Of natural & supernatural things also of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed, and augmented / [by] Basilius Valentinus ; translated out of high Dutch by Daniel Cable ; whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon, Of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his Work of Saturn; and Alex. Van Suchten, Of the secrets of antimony.	Basilius Valentinus.; Cable, Daniel.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, 15th cent.; Suchten, Alexander von, ca. 1520-ca. 1590.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1020; ESTC R29247	60,576	242

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