Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	dew_n	fill_v	great_a	25	3	2.1418	3	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

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-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