Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	lead_v	spirit_n	true_a	4,122	5	5.5406	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45644	The notion of a God neither from fear nor policy a sermon preach'd at the cathedral-church of St. Paul, March the 7th 1697/8 : being the third of the lecture for that year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by John Harris ...	Harris, John, 1667?-1719.	1698 (1698)	Wing H852; ESTC R15402	19,178	32

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fortuna_fw-la ipsis_fw-la prospera_fw-la semper_fw-la foret_fw-la nulla_fw-la superstitione_n tenerentur_fw-la sed_fw-la quoniam_fw-la cò_fw-la sapè_fw-la angusliarum_n rediguntur_fw-la ut_fw-la consilium_fw-la nullum_fw-la ad_fw-la far_o queant_fw-la inter_fw-la spem_fw-la metumque_fw-la misere_fw-la fluctuant_fw-la ideo_fw-la animum_fw-la ut_fw-la plurimum_fw-la ad_fw-la quidvis_fw-la credendum_fw-la pronissi_fw-la num_fw-la habent_fw-la ibid._n ibid._n ea_fw-la omne_fw-la quae_fw-la homines_fw-la unquam_fw-la vanâ_fw-la religione_fw-la coluerunt_fw-la nihil_fw-la praeter_fw-la phantasmata_fw-la animique_fw-la tristis_fw-la &_o timidi_fw-la suisse_fw-la deliria_fw-la ibid._n ibid._n exit_fw-la hâc_fw-la itaque_fw-la superstitionis_fw-la causâ_fw-la sc_n metu_fw-la clarè_v sequitur_fw-la omnes_fw-la homines_fw-la naturâ_fw-la superstitioni_fw-la esse_fw-la obnoxios_fw-la quicquid_fw-la dicant_fw-la alii_fw-la qui_fw-la putant_fw-la hoc_fw-la inde_fw-la oriri_fw-la quod_fw-la omnes_fw-la mortales_fw-la confusam_fw-la quandam_fw-la numinis_fw-la idaeam_fw-la habent_fw-la ibid._n ibid._n leviath_n p._n 51._o 51._o leviath_n p._n 26.51_o 26.51_o leviath_n p._n 54._o 54._o caetera_fw-la quae_fw-la fieri_fw-la in_o terris_fw-la coeloque_fw-la tuentur_fw-la mortales_fw-la pavidis_fw-la cum_fw-la pendent_fw-la mentibu_fw-mi '_o saepè_fw-la efficiunt_fw-la animos_fw-la humiles_fw-la formidine_fw-la diuùm_fw-la depressosque_fw-la premunt_fw-la ad_fw-la terram_fw-la propterea_fw-la quod_fw-la ignorantia_fw-la causarum_fw-la confer_v deorum_fw-la cogit_fw-la ad_fw-la imperium_fw-la res_fw-la &_o concedere_fw-la regnum_fw-la et_fw-la quorum_fw-la operum_fw-la causas_fw-la nullà_fw-fr ratione_fw-la videre_fw-la possunt_fw-la haec_fw-la fieri_fw-la divino_fw-la numine_fw-la rentur_fw-la lib._n 6._o v._n 49._o 49._o lib._n 5._o v._n 1160._o nunc._n quae_fw-la causa_fw-la deüm_fw-la etc._n etc._n etc._n ●i_fw-la qui_fw-la dixerunt_fw-la toram_fw-la de_fw-la diis_fw-la immortalibus_fw-la opinionem_fw-la fictam_fw-la esse_fw-la ab_fw-la hominibus_fw-la sapientibus_fw-la reipublicae_fw-la causâ_fw-la causâ_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d plato_n de_fw-fr legib._n lib._n 10._o 10._o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d sext._n emp._n adv_o math._n p._n 310._o 310._o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d praeterea_fw-la cui_fw-la non_fw-la animus_n formidine_fw-la divium_fw-la contrahitur_fw-la cui_fw-la non_fw-la conrepunt_fw-la membra_fw-la pavore_fw-la fulminis_fw-la horribili_fw-la cum_fw-la plagâ_fw-la torrida_fw-la tellus_fw-la contremit_fw-la &_o magnum_fw-la percurrunt_fw-la murmura_fw-la coelum_fw-la non_fw-fr populi_n gentesque_fw-la tremunt_fw-la regesque_fw-la superbi_fw-la conripiunt_fw-la diuùm_fw-la per●ulsâ_fw-la membra_fw-la timore_fw-la ne_fw-la quod_fw-la ob_fw-la admissum_fw-la foedè_fw-la dictumque_fw-la superbè_fw-la poenarum_fw-la grave_n sit_fw-la solvendi_fw-la tempus_fw-la adactum_fw-la lucret._n l._n 5._o v._n 1217._o 1217._o vid._n archbishop_n tillotson_n first_o sermon_n p._n 47._o 47._o rome_n 1.20_o 1.20_o blount_n life_n of_o apollon_n in_o the_o preface_n preface_n primum_fw-la graius_fw-la homo_fw-la mortales_fw-la tollere_fw-la contra_fw-la est_fw-la oculos_fw-la ausus_fw-la primusque_fw-la obsistere_fw-la contra_fw-la quem_fw-la nec_fw-la fama_fw-la deûm_fw-la nec_fw-la fulmina_fw-la nec_fw-la minitanti_fw-la murmur_n compressit_fw-la coelum_fw-la lib._n 1._o v._n 67._o 67._o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d adu._n math._n p._n 314._o 314._o sext._n empiric_n adu._n mathem_n p._n 316_o 317._o 317._o vbi_fw-la supra_fw-la supra_fw-la leviathan_n p._n 87._o 87._o ib._n p._n 7._o 7._o ib._n p._n 238._o 238._o pag._n 36._o 36._o in_o omnium_fw-la animis_fw-la deorum_fw-la notionem_fw-la natura_fw-la ipsa_fw-la impressit_fw-la de_fw-fr nat._n deorum_n lib._n 1._o 1._o quae_fw-la gens_n est_fw-la aut_fw-la quod_fw-la genu●_n hominum_fw-la quòd_fw-la non_fw-la habeat_fw-la sine_fw-la doctrinâ_fw-la anticipationem_fw-la quandam_fw-la deorum_fw-la quam_fw-la appellat_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d epicurus_n ib._n c._n 32._o 32._o tuscul._n quaest._n l._n 1._o de_fw-fr legib._n l._n 1._o 1._o vid._n epist._n 117_o 118._o de_fw-fr benefic_n 4.4_o 4.4_o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d adu._n mathem_n p._n 314._o 314._o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d dis._n 1._o p._n 5._o 5._o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d de_fw-fr coelo_fw-la l._n 1._o c._n 3._o 3._o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d etc._n etc._n aristot._n metaph._n l._n 14._o c._n 8._o p._n 483._o paris_n 1654._o

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