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virtue_n	faith_n	hope_n	theological_a	1,178	5	12.4996	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16218	The arte of logick Plainely taught in the English tongue, according to the best approued authors. Very necessary for all students in any profession, how to defend any argument against all subtill sophisters, and cauelling schismatikes, and how to confute their false syllogismes, and captious arguments. By M. Blundevile.; Art of logike.	Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.	1617 (1617)	STC 3143; ESTC S115613	123,114	214

are not ioined with any common bound or limit but be loose and seuerall one from another which quantitie is diuided into two kindes that is number and speech What is number and how is it diuided Number is a multitude or summe of vnities or ones gathered together and such number is either simple respectiue or figuratiue Simple as two three foure fiue c. Respectiue as halfe double treble quadruble and such like Figuratiue as a three-square or foure-square number like to these here figured ⸫ and such like What things are comprehended vnder broken quantitie All names of measures whereby we measure any thing either drie or liquid as gallon quart pint bushell pecke pound dram scruple graine c. How is speech here taken Speech is taken here for the measure or quantitie of syllables whereof some be long and some be short and such quantitie is to be considered either in harmonie in rythme or verse of which things the generall and speciall kindes together with the rest that haue beene said touching quantitie are orderly set forth in the Table of quantitie here following What and how many properties doe belong to quantitie To quantitie belong three properties First to haue no contrarietie for great and small be not of themselues contrarie but only by way of comparison Secondly to be greater or lesser but not more or lesse spoken aduerbially for a little quantitie is a quantitie as well as the greatest quantitie of all The third and chiefest propertie of quantitie is to be equall or vnequall The Table of Quantitie Quantitie is either Whole if it bee whole it is either permanent if it be permanent it is either A line which is either Right as a yard an ell Or crooked as a hoope or bow c. A superficies which is either Plaine as a smooth floore c. Or bowing as a vault or ouen c. Or a body which is either Round as a bowle or ball Or with corners as a square die c. Or moueable if it bee moueable it is either Motion which is either Right Circular Or Mixt. Or time and that is either Time past Time present Or time to come Or broken if it be broken quantitie it is either Number which is either Simple as euen or odde c. Respectiu●… as double treble c. Or figuratiue as three-cornered foure-cornered c. Or measure of speech which consisteth either In composition of syllables as Dactilus Sponde●…s c. In harmonie as a third a fist c. In rythme as charme harme Or in verse as hexamiter pentami●…er Iambicke CHAP. X. Of Qualitie WHat is qualitie Qualitie is an affection shape or forme of the minde or bodie wherof the thing so affected or formed taketh his name as of wisdome a man is said to be wise and of iustice hee is called iust How many kindes of qualitie be there Of qualitie there be foure kindes that is habit and disposition naturall power and impotencie passion and passible qualitie figure and forme What is habit and how is it diuided Habit is a constant and absolute perfection in any thing not giuen by nature but gotten by long vse and exercise and it is twosold that is of the minde and of the body againe habit of the minde is twofold whereof the one is called intellectuall belonging to the reason and vnderstanding of man and the other morall belonging to the will of man Of intellectuall habits according to Aristotle there be fiue that is Intelligence Science Prudence Art and Sapience 1 Intelligence is the knowledge of speculatiue principles as 2. and 2. make 4. the whole is more then his part take equall from equall and equall remaine and such like 2 Science is the knowledge of true conclusions consisting of most certaine and infallible propositions as Man is a sensible body Man is apt to learne and vnder Science are comprehended the sciences rationall as Grammar Rhetoricke and Logicke also the sciences Mathematicall as Arithmeticke Geometrie Musicke and Astronomie which are otherwise called Quadriuials that is to say the foure waies or kindes of mathematicall discipline and finally the science physicall that is to say naturall as the naturall philosophie of Aristotle or of any other Writer treating of the secrets of nature 3 Prudence is an habit working with true iudgement and according to right reason in all things appertaining to man bee they good or euill Prudence may be diuided into prudence monasticall domesticall and politicall Monasticall teacheth to gouerne one sole person domesticall to gouerne a houshold or familie and politicall to gouerne a common-wealth 4 Art is an habit of knowledge consisting of assured and certaine rules tried and approued by experience and learned by exercise teaching to doe or to make something that is profitable to mans behoofe and Art comprel end●…th all Arts both liberall and mechanicall that is to say handie crafts 5. Sapience consisting both of intelligence and of science is the head and chiefe of those knowledges that be most honourable in nature comprehending two notable Sciences that is the Christian Diuinitie and the Philosophers Diuinitie otherwise called Metaphysicall that is supernaturall And all these intellectuall habits are contained vnder a certaine and most sure knowledge which is alwaies true for vncertaine knowledge is sometimes true and sometimes false whereto belongeth opinion suspition coniecture and such like Thus much of habit intellectuall What is morall habit and how is it dinided It is a qualitie of the minde gotten by custome and doctrine teaching and inuiting mans will to worke either well or euill and is twofold that is either good or euill to the good belong all kinde of vertues as iustice liberalitie fortitude temperance c. to the euill al kinde of vices as pride couetousnesse cowardlinesse and such like And note that of vertues some bee called morall and some theologicall that is to say diuine Which call you theologicall or diuine Those that be not gotten by custome or mans industrie but are the meere gifts of God as faith hope and perfect charitie and all other gifts of the holy Ghost as the gifts of the tongues of prophecying of healing and such like which some doe attribute to habit infused making a difference betwixt habit infused habit acquired or gottē as you may see in the Table following What is habit of the bodie Habit of the body is a certaine aptnesse agilitie of doing any thing with the body not giuen by nature but gotten by custome exercise as to ride well to run to leape to daunce to wrestle to shoot to fence to dart to swim to write to paint and such like The Table of Habit. Habit is either Of the body as To fence To dart To shoot To wrestle Or of the mind if it be of the mind it is either Infused as Faith Hope Charitie Or acquired if it bee acquired it is either Intellectuall intellectuall coprehen deth both Knowledge certaine if it be certaine it containeth