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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	fire_n	moist_a	3,419	5	10.6773	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37911	The fellow-traveller through city and countrey	Edmundson, Henry, 1607?-1659.	1658 (1658)	Wing E181; ESTC R38856	87,865	322

said Socrates and I will give thee back again to thy self better then when I received thee LVI Antigonus seeing Cleanthes a Learned Philosopher helping a Baker to grinde corn at the Mill said unto him Molis tu Cleanthe What Cleanthes dost thou grinde Corn I sayes he I do so or else I must starve for want of bread And many there are who are forc'd to serve Tables their own Table who are fitter for better service And perhaps Democritus is Mendicus hodiernus and though he could write something else writes this first to put meat in his mouth LVII For all this Democritus loves not to goe a begging with him Verecundum est rogo dicere Yet He loves and thinks a Scholars part Saepe rogare For old Democritus hath told him that Veritas est in puteis fodinis and he knows then that it is the curious and inquisitive man that must digge and draw it out of the deep He is therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one of the Seekers for He hath found by experience that Quaestio quaesitio res est quaestu●sa qui quaerit non quaesita invenit He that asks of others that are able to informe him discit placet He that asks and seeks of himself finds very often more than he seeks for Besides Dulcior cibus ex venatu and Omne scientificum quantò profundiùs quaeritur tantò gloriosiùs invenitur He that does scire per causam knows more certainly and most usefully And therefore in ordinary and high-way sentences and common School-boy Theams He lets them not passe without enquiry An sit or Cur sit To which purpose though Democritus knows the Scholar furnished with some problematical Books as du Plessis Camerarius and others yet he thinks Tassonis Pensieri may be a stranger to many and therefore having collected and compacted in brief some number out of his large Book He will here bestow some few of them on the Scholar choosing those which are the more pleasing and agreeable to the intent of this book and leaving the more serious to his graver studies in the Library if shops will not help him with the Authour LVIII Quary 1. ex L. 1. q. 10. l. 3. q. 5. 8. Why Fire melts Lead and hardens Egges melts Ice and hardens salt melts Wax and hardens Clay R. Fire melts Lead and other metals because Metals in their principles are but watry and moist substances I should think rather earthy and stony congealed and condensed by the excesse of cold N. B. not by concoction of heat as vulgarly which the fire vanquishing reduceth them to their originall and so we see the waters that do saxifie and metallize plants or other things thrown into them are extreme cold And fire hardens Egges because the thin waterish humour being quickly evaporated the viscous and more tenacious humour remaining is easily dried and hardened Salt and Ice have both their principles from water and Fire evaporates the more light and subtile part of Sea-water and dries the more earthy which makes the salt But Ice which is condensed by excessive cold retains the whole Humidity without any drinesse wherefore the heat overcoming that cold reduceth it to his former state The same reason holds why the Sun hardens Clay and melts Wax for Clay is nothing but earth altered by an adventitious moisture which being consumed by the Sun the Earth remains as it was naturally cold and dry and Wax consisting of fatnesse and moisture united by cold the heat of the fire or Sun dissolves the union and so makes it liquid and diffusive and so we see also in grease tallow or the like LIX L. 2. q. 10. Why the Heavens and the Sea appear of an azure colour Colours saith our Authour still come from the predominancy of the four first qualities As whitenesse comes from cold and so congealed things turn white as Tallow Snow Hayl c. and men in cold Countreys and women which are of a cold complexion have white skins and flegme and spittle is therefore white and old men grow white haired Rednesse comes from heat as we see in bloud choler and metals put into the fire Blacknesse comes from the adustion of heat and this we see in coale melancholy and smoak which is but air and moisture adust Green comes from moisture as we see in grasse herbs and leaves of trees and so we may call the colour of the water being a moist body and we have a colour called Sea-green Azure hath some affinity and relation to green as we finde those that dye green do first dip in blew yet green hath more light and Azure more opacity and so our eye looking to the skie sees the light by distance shadowed into blew And therefore Painters to imitate Nature in representing their Landskips paint their Mountains and places distant of a skie colour Aristotle saith that Azure is the colour of the Sea and the skie hath it only by reflextion from the sea as in a glasse but if so then in great Continents the skie should appear of another colour LX. L. 5. q. 13. Why green delights the sight 1. Because it consists in a more entire proportion betwixt black and white then other middle colours 2. Because it is the colour our sight is accustomed to in grasse leaves c. and that in the most pleasant season when the air is most welcome neither too hot nor too cold when the Spring and youth of all things please us c. and so it delights us not only by sense but by memory reflecting on its concomitants as some musick though none of the best delights more by remembrance of our youthfull dayes and company 3. Because the eye being an Organ full of moisture is by sympathy as the taste also delighted with that colour which ariseth from moisture and offended with the fire and Sun by reason of the drynesse This our Authour saith holds except in a Gentle womans face where green if it may be called so pleaseth not LXI L. 5. q. 16. Why smoak offends the eyes For the reason before the moisture of the eye and the drynesse of smoak which is seen in preservation of Meats from putrefaction by smoke From the moisture of the Eyes it is that those that have a good sight have not so good a smell because the sight requires cold and moist the smell hot and dry and for this is Fishing good for the eyes because of the moist ambient air by the Rivers side The vapour of an Onyon will extract tears and not pepper and therefore not only because of its Acrimony but because of the adjoyned tenaciousnesse and viscosity in the vapour of the Onyon But whereas our Authour saith it offends the eyes and not other parts he did not consider that though the eye because of its porosity and tendernesse be much offended yet the brain also and the lungs are offended and that to the hindrance of study or speaking and if it

continue to the danger of health LXII L. 4. q. 3. Whether a man receives more pleasure or displeasure from the sense of smelling Smell is given to unreasonable creatures in such perfection as they can do many things by it which men do by discourse As particularly Dogs which by smell only know their Masters will finde them out in the night and track them at the greatest distance Nay they will not only smell out Beasts and Birds that are hid but they will pick a stone out of the bottome of the water which hath been thrown after them which seems a dull thing and not to yield any scent at all But man serving himself by discourse hath this sense more remisse not much at hand and that little rather for rellish then necessity for a man may live without perfumes or flowers Indeed meats when they have an aromaticall taste conformable to their Nature rellish the sweeter as Wines Fruits Rostmeat and other viands But on the other side unsavoury and rotten meats are much more nauseous to the stomack and offensive to the brain Besides all mea●s breed such excrements as man cannot endure And further the heaps of dirt dregs dunghils c. are not only noysome but pestilen●iall Nay many wholsome things are lothsome as lillies Brimstone Physical drugs c. Now this happens not to other creatures Smels 't is true they will discern at more distance but bad smels offend them not at hand except in what is their own food Wherefore men that have a bad scent or have lost their smell have the lesse cause to be grieved for it because there are so many more bad smels then good ones Yea and what my L. Verulam observes Men have lost their life by bad smels which no good smels have power to recover Yet to recompence this Those that have a good smell have a good wit also as Cardan observes Quoniam calida sicca cerebri temperies olfactu praestat talis verò ad imaginandum prompta ob caliditatem imaginum tenax est ob siccitatem Neither is that true which the Ancients observe that man hath the most imperfect smell for though he smell not at such a distance yet he discerns more species and differences of smels other creatures breathing the ayr of no odoriferous things but such only as serve them for food LXIII L. 4. q. 9. Why Marble sweats 1. Scaliger saith because those stones come out of waters and therefore steal the moist ayre which is connaturall to them which the heat of the Ayre concocting turns into drops 2. But this comes to passe because those moist vapours occasioned by the South-winde in close places as Churches Cloysters c. where Marble is cannot pierce the Marble as other porose bodies and so making stay upon the stone are by its coldnesse condensed into drops The same we see in wainscoat being more close and solid then other wood and in smooth glasses if filled with cold water Iron and Marble in open ayre have rather a dew then drops because of the plenty of attenuated and loose moisture and the breathing of the Ayre which disperseth it and the inclination of the water to seek communion and fellowship whereas in dry places as in dust upon a Table on dry Marble water will rowle it self into little heaps to unite and preserve it self against its enemy drynesse And this is the reason of the roundnesse of drops and not that common one that water doth it to conform it self with the rotundity of the great masse of waters which cannot be said to be round but as conjoyned with the masse of the earth both which do but make one globe LXIV L. 4. q. 15. Why Oyle swims above water 1. Aristotle saith Because of its mixture with Ayre and so Plutarch Quòd de reliquis humidis maxime pellucidum est Oleum quia in se plurimum habet Aeris This we see in Ice which because of its mixture with Ayre is more transparent 2. Another reason is because it is hot and full of spirits as we see it will quickly take flame which water will not and therefore is it lighter as we finde the same vessell weighs more filled with water then with oyle Although Oyle being hot will sooner congeal then vinegar or water yet that is not properly a freezing of Oyle but only a more ready condensation of it for Oyle being of it self a juyce of a condensed substance as it will be easily dissolved by a tepedity of Ayre because of its own inward cooperating heat so a little help of cold makes it return to his first originall LXV L. 4. q. 21. Why men are sick at Sea and not on Rivers 1. Plutarch attributes this to the smell of the sea-Sea-waters and to the fear of those that use not the Sea for those that are usually upon the Sea will not vomit 2. It is probable upon experience that it is from the Agitation and tossing of the Sea and so it will fall out in the outlets of Rivers because a circular and confused motion is most repugnant to mans naturall motion which is erect and distinct And therefore turning round also will turn a mans stomack For the spirits being stirred make the meat boyl on the stomack and so lift it up to disgorge it self LXVI L. 5. q. 4. In what tongue a Childe kept by himself would speak Not in Hebrew for deaf men speak not Hebrew nor in any other language But the tongue being for mutuall commerce and entercourse if a dozen were bred up together wihtout hearing any others they would when they came to understanding make a Language of their own and so in infinitum so many more so many new Languages LXVII L. 5. q. 7. Why man on his Head is more hairy than other Creatures 1. The excrementitious part of food is in others spent in Teeth and Horns as Arostotle saith and in man it is necessary as in other things that Pilosity should follow the moisture of the brain 2. Hair is Natures Fringe and fence against Heat and Cold and in man because he goes upright it is his cover which in Beasts that are crooked is no more necessary then on the other parts LXVIII L. 5. q. 16. Whether is it worse to be blinde or deaf The blinde have a great infelicity being unapt for action and exposed to the injuries of the world besides the very seeing is delightful and the sight as Cardan is Sensus nobilissimus quòd procul magis plura exquisitiùs celeriùs sub pluribus differentiis decernit But to be born deaf is certainly worse for besides that with it they lose their tongue also they can know nothing of God and goodnesse but by natural instinct and so are in the confines betwixt men and beasts And the blinde are but only debarred corporall actions not intellectuall So that we see divers blinde men Scholars but none deaf yet the deaf and dumb man hath a late worthy