Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	fortitude_n	justice_n	temperance_n	2,097	5	10.3230	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46913	The scholars guide from the accidence to the university, or, Short, plain, and easie rules for performing all manner of exercise in the public school viz. rules for spelling, orthography, pointing, construing, parsing, making Latine, placing Latine, variation, amplification, allusion, imitation, observation, moving passion : as also rules for making colloquys, essays, fables, prosopopæia's, characters, themes, epistles, orations, declamations of all forts : together with rules for translation, variation, imitation, carmen, epigrams, dialogues, eccho's, epitaphs, hymnes, anagrams, acrostichs, chronostichs, &c. / by Ra. Johnson ...	Johnson, Ralph.	1665 (1665)	Wing J786; ESTC R2152	24,605	48

Geaces Furys Fates Vertues c. See Rousner Quarles Alciat Cambden 6. Laws and Customs of the Jews Greeks Romans Egyptians Saxons c. See Godwins Antiq. Leo Modena Plutarch Verstegan Olaus Magnus 7. Neat and Significant Sentences and Apothegms out of Tacitus Salust Livy Tully Licosthones and the Poets 8. Rhetoricall sigures especially such as adorn an Oration or move the Passions See Vessius Faruaby Vicars Butler 9. Topicks of Logick or heads from whence arguments are drawn viz. Causes Effects Subjects Adjuncts Contraries 10. The whole Series of Naturall and Artificiall things especially Pyramids Labyrinths Temples Palaces Shops of Artists Meats Merchandise Stones Plants Fish Fowls Stars c. Collections out of choice Authors under these heads will serve in all manner of Exercise for Exordiums Simile's Testimonies Allusions and other Ornaments RVLES of Observation In reading Authors besides the above recited perticulers Scholars must diligently observe and treasure up in memory 1. All choice single words especially such as agree in sound with the thing signified as Boatus mugitus ululatus lugubris vortex tinnio clangor stridor fragor c. 2. Such as both by use and Etymology appositely express the thing signified as philomela sacro-sanctus sartus-tectus praeter-propter 3. Such whose signification is very large or hardly to be expressed in other words as colo s●ringo mereor tenor Idea tinctura 2. All choice Phrases or Idiotisms of the tongue whether Poeticall Historicall or Oratoricall together with Congruous and Significant Epithets Neat Periphrases and Descriptions 3. All choice strains of Eloquence fit to be imitated such be Non feram non patiar non sinam pleni sunt omnes librí plenae sapientium voces plena exemplorum vetustas nullo possessio firmior constantior nulla Obsequium amicos veritac odium parit 4. The Rhetoricall Analysis viz. the parts of which any Oration doth consift the heads from whence the Arguments are drawn as also what passions are moved and from what heads 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the heights of Eloquence viz. when an Author doth express a passion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or other Action to the life so that nothing can be said further Such be Seneca Med. Mens intus agitat vulnera caedem vagum Funus per artus levia memoravi cinnis Haec virgo feci gravior exurgat dolor Majora jam me scelera post partus decent Ja. Infesta memet perime Med. misereri jubes RVLES for moving the Passions 1. Fear is moved 1. By setting forth the greatness of the approaching evill 2. By shewing that it is near at hand 3. By producing examples in like cases or prodigies 2. Confidence and hope are moved 1. By shewing that the Dangers or evils may be or have been escaped by us or others 2. By reckoning up the convenient means or helps which we have and others want 3. By perswasion of Divine favour from prodigys prophesies or common voice of the people 3. Shame is moved 1. By setting forth the baseness of the fact 2 Or the signs of baseness in the parties or their relations 4. Joy is moved 1. By recounting our former miseries 2. By exaggerating our present happiness 5. Anger is moved 1. By shewing the hainousness and indignity of the fact 2. The Innocency vertue dignity of the person injured 3. The vices and contemptible condition of the person injuring 4. That the injury extends not onely to the present but to posterity 6. Lenity is moved 1. By shewing that the offence was not committed through wilfulness or disrespect but through passion rashness c. 2. That the former good deeds exceeded this offence 3. By testifying our unfeigned sorrow 4. By setting forth the glory and benefits of lenity 7. Love is moved by expressing our willingness to do good to others or their relations especially under the notion of good men without respect to our own advantage 8. Hatred is moved by relating and exaggerating the offences enviously committed against what is dealt to us 9. Indignation is moved by comparing the former baseness of a person with his present undeserved honour or plenty 10. Envy is moved 1. By shewing that the honour or riches gotten were not obtained by vertue but basely 2. By exaggerating the persons insolency shewint that it exceeds his merits 11. Pitty is moved by exaggerating the misery from the adjuncts of time place person end manner 2. By comparing our former felicity with our present misery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR Short and plain directions for the making of all manner of School-Exercises in Prose or Verse A Colloquie A Colloquie is a feigned discourse betwixt two or more Persons RVLES for making it 1. Imagine some discourse betwixt two or more persons concerning some matter daily hapning among people as about the School House Church Market Fields Woods or something done therein or about News Travels Games Imployments Trades c. 2. Express your thoughts in choice and good phrase such as you have collected out of approved Authors 3. Let not one word or phrase be said oft over but if you must use the same Sence vary the Phrase 4. Indeavour to make your Colloquy pleasant with witty jerks quibbles and fancies such as you shall often find in Erasmus joking upon a name action proverb or the like 5. In larger Colloquies upon any perticular Subject as Foot-ball Hand-ball Hunting Hawking Fishing Swiming Shuting Musick Dancing Feasts Souldiery Law Heraldry c. Indeavour to apply as many of the terms belonging to that exercise as may be An Essay An Essay is a short discourse about any vertue vice or other common-place Such be Learning Ignorance Justice Temperance Fortitude Prudence Drunkenness Usury Love Joy Fear Hope Sorrow Anger Covetousness Contentation Labour Idleness Riches Poverty Pride Humility Virginity c. RVLES for making it 1. Having chosen a Subject express the nature of it in two or three short Definitions or Descriptions 2. Shew the severall sorts or kinds of it with their distinctions 3. Shew the several causes adjuncts and effects of each sort or kinde 4. Be carefull to do this briefly without tautology or superfluous words in good and choice language 5. Metaphors Allegories Antithetons and Paranomasia's do greatly adorn this kind of exercise 6. In larger and compleat Essays such as Bacon's Feltham's c. we must labour compendiously to express the whole nature of with all observables about our subject A Fable A Fable is a facetious discourse false in it self yet secretly intimating a truth RVLES for making it 1. Chuse some Subject which you intend for your morall as Learning Arts Cowardise Courage Fraud Patience Envy Ingratitude c. 2. Pitch upon some living creatures for your speakers which may fitly resemble the vertue or vice chosen as the Hieroglyphick thereof as for Corwardise the Hare or Dere for subtilty the Fox for courage the Lion for dulness the Ass for Hypocrisie the Crocodile for Chastity the Turtle for naturall affection the Stork for