Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	body_n	great_a	part_n	6,429	4	4.3809	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39232	The grounds & occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion enquired into in a letter written to R.L.	Eachard, John, 1636?-1697.	1672 (1672)	Wing E52; ESTC R31398	55,186	170

of body to sit still so much as in general is requisite to a competent degree of Learning For although reading and thinking breaks neither Legs nor Arms yet certainly there is nothing that so flags the Spirits disorders the Blood and enfeebles the whole Body of Man as intense Studies As for him that rives Blocks or carries Packs there is no great expence of parts no Anxiety of Mind no great Intellectual Pensiveness Let him but wipe his Forehead and he is perfectly recovered But he that has many Languages to remember the Nature almost of the whole World to consult many Histories Fathers and Councils to search into if the Fabrick of his body be not strong and healthful you will soon find him as thin as Metaphysicks and look as piercing as School subtlety This Sir could not be conveniently omitted not only because many are very careless in this point and at a venture determine their young Relations to Learning but because for the most part if amongst many there be but one of all the Family that is weak and sickly that is languishing and consumptive this of all the rest as counted not fit for any course Employment shall be pick'd out as a choice Vessel for the Church Whereas most evidently he is much more able to dig daily in the Mines than to sit cross-legg'd musing upon his Book I am very sensible how obvious it might be here to hint that this so curious and severe inquiry would much hinder the practice and abate the flourishing of the Universities As also there has been several and are still many living Creatures in the World who whilst young were of a very slow and meek apprehension have yet afterward cheared up into a great briskness and became Masters of much Reason And others there have been who although forced to a short continuance in the University and that oft-times interrupted by unavoidable services have yet by singular care and industry proved very famous in their Generation And lastly some also of very feeble and crasie Constitutions in their Childhood have out-studied their distempers and have become very healthful and serviceable in the Church As for the flourishing Sir of the Universities what has been before said aims not in the least at Gentlemen whose coming thither is chiefly for the hopes of single improvement and whose Estates do free them from the necessity of making a gain of Arts and Sciences but only at such as intend to make Learning their Profession as well as Accomplishment So that our Schools may be still as full of Flourishings of fine Cloaths rich Gowns and future Benefactors as ever And suppose we do imagine as it is not necessary we should that the number should be a little lessen'd this surely will not abate the true splendour of an University in any Man's opinion but his who reckons the flourishing thereof rather from the multitude of meer Gowns than from the Ingenuity and Learning of those that wear them no more than we have reason to count the flourishing of the Church from that vast number of People that crowd into Holy Orders rather than from those Learned and useful Persons that defend her Truths and manifest her Ways But I say I do not see any perfect necessity that our Schools should hereupon be thinn'd and less frequented having said nothing against the Multitude but the indiscreet Choice If therefore instead of such either of inferiour parts or a feeble Constitution or of unable Friends there were pick'd out those that were of a tolerable Ingenuity of a study-bearing Body and had good hopes of being continued as hence there is nothing to hinder our Universities from being full so likewise from being of great Credit and Learning Not to deny then but that now and then there has been a Lad of very submissive parts and perhaps no great share of time allow'd him for his Studies who have proved beyond all expectation brave and glorious Yet surely we are not to over-reckon this so rare a hit as to think that one such proving Lad should make recompense and satisfaction for those many weak ones as the common people love to phrase them that are in the Church And that no care ought to be taken no choice made no Maintenance provided or considered because now and then in an Age one miraculously beyond all hopes proves learned and useful is a practice whereby never greater Mischiefs and disesteem has been brought upon the Clergy I have in short Sir run over what seemed to me the first Occasions of that small learning that is to be found amongst some of the Clergy I shall now pass from Schooling to the Universities I am not so unmindful of that Devotion which I owe to those places nor of that great esteem I profess to have of the Guides and Governours thereof as to go about to prescribe new Forms and Schemes of Education where Wisdom has laid her Top-stone Neither shall I here examine which Philosophy the old or new makes the best Sermons it is hard to say that Exhortations can be to no purpose if the Preacher believes that the Earth turns round Or that his Reproofs can take no effect unless he will suppose a Vacuum There has been good Sermons no question made in the days of Materia Prima and Occult Qualities And there is doubtless still good Discourses now under the Reign of Atoms There is but two things wherein I count the Clergy chiefly concerned as to University Improvements that at present I shall venture to make Inquiry into And the first is this Whether or no it were not highly useful especially for the Clergy who are supposed to speak English to the People that English Exercises were imposed upon Lads if not in publick Schools yet at least privately Not but that I am abundantly satisfied that Latin O Latin 't is the all in all and the very cream of the Jest As also that Oratory is the same in all Languages The same Rules being observed the same Method the same Arguments and Arts of perswasion But yet it seems somewhat beyond the reach of ordinary Youth so to apprehend those general Laws as to make a just and allowable use of them in all Languages unless exercised particularly in them Now we know the Language that the very learned part of this Nation must trust to live by unless it be to make a Bond or prescribe a Purge which possibly may not oblige or work so well in any other Language as Latin is the English And after a Lad has taken his leave of Madam University God bless him he is not likely to deal afterward with much Latin unless it be to checker a Sermon or to say Salveto to some travelling Dominatio Vestra Neither is it enough to say that the English is the Language with which we are swaddled and rock'd asleep and therefore there needs none of this artificial and superadded care For there be those that speak very well plainly