Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	draw_v	iron_n	loadstone_n	1,525	5	13.0457	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28284	The natural and experimental history of winds &c. written in Latine by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; translated into English by R.G., gent.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686. Brief discourse touching the office of Lord Chancellor of England.; Gentili, Robert, 1590-1654?	1671 (1671)	Wing B306; ESTC R31268	123,856	142

they be proceed not from the propriety of heat but only by meer accident for cold will do the same as we shall shew hereafter namely by the desire which Homogeneal parts have to come together Heat onely helping to shake off the dulness which before had bound up the desire Secondly as concerning the Assistance of the vertue of the allyed body that doth wonderfully appear in an armed Load-stone For the Nature of an armed Load-stone is such that it a certain distance it will not draw nor attract Iron stronger than a Load-stone which is not armed but if the Iron be brought so near to it that the armed Loadstone touch it it will take up a greater quantity of Iron than a plain and unarmed Loadstone by reason of the similitude of the substance of Iron to Iron Thirdly as concerning the assistance of Motion it may be perceived in Arrows which are made all of wood and are not headed with Iron of which it is reported that being shot out of a Peece of Ordnance will penetrate further into any wooden substance as the sides of ships or the like than those which are headed with Iron by reason of the substances similitude wood to wood though this vertue lay hidden in the wood the numness of the wood being shaken off by the celerity of the Motion But the binding of the Motion of the minor Congregation which is by the curb of the Dominating or commanding body it appears in the dissolving of bloud and urine by means of cold For as long as those bodies are replenished with an active spirit which as Master of the whole orders and keeps in each singular part so long the Heterogeneal cannot come together by reason of the curb But when that spirit is once evaporated or suffocated by cold then the parts freed from the courb come together according to their own natural desire And thence it proceeds that all substances which contain a sharp spirit as Salt and the like last and do not dissolve by reason of the lasting and permanent curb of the commanding and imperious spirit The binding of the motion of the Minor Congregation which is done by an external motion is especially perceived in the Agitations of Bodies by which Putrefaction is hindred For all manner of Putrefaction is grounded upon the Congregation or gathering together of Homogeneals whereby by little and little is caused the Corruption as they call it of the first form and the generation of another new one For the dissolution of the old form goes before Putrefaction which prepares the way to the Generation of the new form which is the Coition it self to Homogenia and that if it be not hindred becomes a simple solution but if there come divers things in the way to hinder it then Putrefactions follow which are rudiments or beginnings of a new Generation And if which is the thing we have now in hand there be a frequent agitation by an external motion then this motion of Coition which is delicate and tender and desires rest outwardly is disturbed and ceaseth as we see in an innumerable company of things As when a daily agitation or running water expels Putrefaction Winds drive a way the Pestilence of the Air Corn in Garners of the Air or Store-houses turned and tossed up and down continue pure and finally all things that are agitated outwardly do not easily putrifie inwardly We must not at last omit that Coition or going together of Parts of the body which chiefly causeth Induration or Desiccation For after the spirit or some humidity turned into spirit is fled out of some porous body as in Wood a Bone a Parchment and the like then the thickest parts are contracted and grow up together with greater vehemence whereupon grows Exsiccetion or Induration which we believe to be done not so much by the motion of Connexion that there may be no vacuity as by this motion of Amity and Union As concerning the Coition at distance that is very unfrequent and rare and yet it is in more things than is observed The representations of these are one bubble dissolving another Medicaments draw humours out of the similitude of substance one string moves another string in a several instrument to an Unison and the like I conceive this kind of motion likewise to be in the spirits of living or animal things but this is as yet unknown But certainly it is eminent in the Load-stone and Iron raised up Now when we speak of the motions of the Load-stone they must be plainly distinguished for there are four vertues or operations in the Load-stone which ought not to be confounded but separated though the admiration and stupidity of men hath mixed them the one is the Coition or coming together of the Load-stone with the Load-stone or of Iron with the Load-stone or of Iron with Iron touched therewith The second is of its turning North and South and also of its Declination the third is of its penetrating through Gold Glass Stone or any thing The fourth is of the Communication of its vertue from the stone into Iron and from Iron into Iron without any communication of the substance but in this place we speak only of its first vertue namely of its Coition or coming together That is also a notable Coition of Quicksilver and Gold so that Gold will attract Quicksilver though it be made up in Unguents and those who work amongst the vapours of Quick-silver use to hold a piece of Gold in their mouths to gather together the emissions of the Quick-silver which would otherwise invade and penetrate their craniums and bones and causeth the gold so held in their mouths to turn white And thus much shall suffice to be spoken of the motion of the lesser Congregation Let the ninth Motion be the Magnetick Motion which though it be of the same kind as the Motion of the Lesser Congregation yet if it operate at great distances and upon great masses of things it deserves a several Inquisition especially if it do not begin with touching nor doth not bring the action to the touch as all Congregating Motions do but only elevates the bodies or causes them to swell and no more For if the Moon raiseth the waters or causeth moist things to swell up or the starry sky draws their Planets towards their Apogea or the Sun binds together the stars of Venus and Mercury that they can go no further from his body then to such a certain distance These Motions seem cannot be well placed neither under the Major nor Minor Congregation but are as it were middle or imperfect Congregatives and must have a proper species or kind to themselves Let the tenth Motion be the Motion of Flight or Shunning Namely a Motion contrary to that of the Minor Congregation by which bodies through Antipathy flie from such bodies as are enemies to them separate themselves from them and refuse to mix with them For though in some things this Motion seem to