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
A54477	An anatomical lecture of man, or, A map of the little world, delineated in essayes and characters by Samuell Person ...	Person, Samuel, 17th cent.	1664 (1664)	Wing P1665; ESTC R18374	38,395	111

Disciples yea he is a second Apollo himself his words are Oracles he partakes of the Serpents wisdome and Doves innocency the Serpent amongst the Egyptian Priests was an emblem of Wisdome which doth extricate and winde it self out of the maze of troubles and dangers and it insinuates it self into rocks and winds it self out again In like manner doth a wise man winde himself out of the Labrynths of trouble and winds himself out of the Rocks of Error and there finds the Pearl of Truth This Wisdome he is indued with is like to that Mahumetan Dove that inspires him This wisdome is the quintescence of other moral Vertues the World is a Ring and this divine Sapience is a Diamond in it all other pretious stones are but glistering Pebles spangling Fopperies yea Vtopias toys This this is the Stone of Stones Pearl of Pearls and Jewel of jewels a wise man is not only a Phylosoper but a great traveller and has encompas't the World before he could compasse this Wisdome yea he is a Phylosopher and this Sapience is the Phylosophers Stone that will turn all things into Gold this Wisdome is the Chymists Elixar that is spoken of that will prolong a man unto Nestors age yea Methusalams years O happy prolonger that with its holy oyle will make the Taper of mans life burn unto infinity of years I mean it will be a means for a man to soar to the Hyacinthian Skyes with the wings of this Eagle-like Sapience Wisdome is a wise mans Guardian Angel that protects him from all hurt A wise man is like a Star that shines transparently in his Horison but wisdome or Apollo the God of wisdome is the Sun that darts his beams into his little Orb and inlightens his Microcosme It is said in natural Phylosophy that Forma dat esse rei but wisdome is the divine form may I call it image Quae dat esse sapienti Diogines and the Antient Phylosophers fained Wisdome to be in a deep pit yea in an abysse but who can fadom this fathomless Pit I doubt wisdome now a dayes is buried in such profound graves but yet some of its divine sparkles are left in some unlesse Behmen the German that Teutonick Philosopher in his mistical or Magical Teutonick Philosophy means that Wisdome is the Center of all things I know not what his intent is Scaliger did think that Wisdome did inhabit among the Rocks so it had better then live among such stocks and stones as some men are and that this Pearl is there to be found Pearl call I it yea I rather miscall it for all other Pearls are but Pebels in comparison of it Wisdome is pretiouser then the pretiousest of Pearls the Carbuncle is as it were incenst in slames that this Pearl of Wisdome out-shines it the Ruby or rather the Purple Amethist blushes that this Ruby of Rubys should out-shine it the Diamond looks pale for envy Wisdome is a spell against all the worlds enchantments an Antidote against the poyson of Vice the all heale that will heal our distempers Wisdome is the milky way its vertues are the Stars and this is the way and the innocent snowy path that leads to felicity This is the Primum Mobile that moves the wheels of mens affections yea makes men move every one in his proper sphear Wisdome in the garden of this World is a herb that may be termed life everlasting yea it will make men sage wisdome is a Charriot of fire and Appolo is the Phaeton the four Cardinal virtues viz. Justice Fortitude Temperance and Prudence are as the four horses Prudence differs from this Wisdome as it is an ethical morral Vertue and pertains to the manners as the Phylosophers define it but let us define what Wisdome is It is a divine vertue whereby a man knows all things to be known sees all things doth all things to a right end it is the soul of souls and it is a knowledge infused into mens hearts whereby a man knows all divine mysteries searches into the causes of all things orders all things wisely doth all things discreetly thinks on all things judiciously judges of all things justly understands all things rightly It is the quintescence and extraction of all wit the product of all excellent judgments the understanding of all understandings the wit of wits the reason of reasons the vertue of vertues and all these in perfection This Serpentine Wisdome is the Ariadneean thred that winds men out of the Labyrinth of miry and now I may cry out with the Poet. Pinge duos angues With the Egyptians as I said before a Serpent was the Hyrogliphicks of Wisdome it being one of the wisest Creatures in the World Wisdome is the great Rabby that teaches all its Disciples that Sophe's his Angelical wisdome is a Cherubin for knowledge or knowledge in the abstract knowledge it self it is a Serpent for wisedome a Dragon that keeps the Golden Apple of virtue in its Hesperides it is a Cock for Vigilancy a Dove for Innocency a Lyon for Courage and Strength and what not There is a story of one of the Romane Emperours that saw a Serpent at his bed side as it were to defend him so wisedome is a safe-gard to wise men May I say without prophaneness that wisedome is the Tree of Life in the Paradice or VVilderness of this world and that Mercury's Rod which signifies wisedome is a twig of that Tree that whips out folly O thou Divine Sapience thou Caelestial Cherubin descend unto us and the Hyacinthian Clouds shall screene thee again I doubt wisedome hath plumed its feet and flowne to Heaven nothing but folly remaining on Earth VVisedome is a Eortress to the weak strength to the strong a glory to the rich riches to the poor Power to the impotent VVisedome in a mans Microsme is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is pictured in the forme of a woman as that Divine Plato said of virtue so I may say of wisedom Could it be seen with mortal eyes it would with its beauty attract all eyes unto it Then surely it may see well its heartsravishing forme and divine beauty would amaze all eyes and dazle them with its Phaebian rayes its voice is sweeter harmony then the Harmony of the chiming Sphears or the Musick of Orpheus's Harp VVisedom me thinks its very Name is a charme If I were to decipher and picture out wisedome I would picture it full of eyes to see all things full of hands to do all things full of eare Midas-like eares to hear all and full of tongues Apollo the God of VVisedom streams out his Oracles in Rivers of Mercurial eloquence he is endued with Mercuries Golden tongue to speak as many Languages as that rare Linguist Mithridates VVisedom is so profound that I have not sounded its depth it s an Abyss Abyssus Abyssum invocat A wise man is an Argos his eyes keep Centry he is so circumspect nothing can circumvent him he sees and fore-sees things past present