Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	great_a	world_n	1,652	5	4.2491	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87625	Herm'ælogium or, an essay at the rationality of the art of speaking. As a supplement to Lillie's grammer, philosophically, mythologically, & emblematically offered by B.J.	Jones, Bassett.	1659 (1659)	Wing J925; Thomason E2122_3; ESTC R210164	49,694	109

propension such as is the fires to burn c. or else advisedly Which last sort o●●esire standeth equally inclined to two contraries as a man 's either to walk or not In which also there must be a certain deliberation that is an affection of the mind freely reasoning this election whether pro or con makes no difference Sithence he that disswadeth doth perswade not to do Whence it was necessary that things thus done should be declared by a particular shape face or figure of words Therefore things just now done they called Indicative or Definitive Things to be done before this election or on it depending they called con or Subjunctive Things absolute or no way depending and yet in the power of another they distinguished calling a vote towards a greater Optative and towards a lesser Imperative Lastly whereas certain Verbs do barely express the will power or Inclination of the agent as volo cup●o vadeo c. The object of those are expressible either simply or else under time thus Volo cibum cupio imperium video cursum Meat being simply objected to the will Rule to the desire and the course or race to the sight But if I were to manifest these objects under time and action joyntly then were I forc'd to find out some word that might express the action Infinitively that is without Positively defining either as to say Volo comedere cupio imperare video te currere Which infinitive way of expression cannot yet properly be called a Mood sit●ence no inclination of the mind is by it manifested Thus far Scaliger So comprehending first the questioning Mood of the Ancients under the Positive Definitive or Indicative Secondly the Hortative under the Imperative and thirdly excluding the Infit●tive as aforesaid Dr. Taylor and Mr. Hoole whose pardon I shall not despair of if I transgress the mode by quoting them in their dayes when they know that scribling this at my paternal hermitage in Glamorganshire besides their and the fore-cited I had the sight of no track on this Subject Although out of compliance with our Author they retain the Infinitive yet make but one Mood of the Optative Potential and Subjunctive And in my opinion as tolerably For if Scaliger couldmaintain his exclusion for want of a power to particularize a temporal inclination of the minde why might not they their reduction See the definition all three being expressible under one figure or face Besides that the two last are not essential to the Philosophy but multilocution of a sentence viz that thereby two sentences might be expressible at once The sound of the Potential Latine Mood when single being alwayes expressed by the addition of Possum Volo or Debeo And the Subjunctive elsewhere quot●d by Scaliger and that as the sense of an Ancient to be Nonita dictus quia subjungeretur sed quia subjungeret So implicitly confessing its defect until another be joyned to it The same might be said of the Potential which so placed as it intelligibly comprehends Possum c is thereby made capable of the name So that as the Optative Mood is known by its Adverb and the Subjunctive by its conjunction the Potential is manifested by its Subjunctive office without either Adverb or Conjunction thereto joyned under the face of an Optative But whether the Subjunctive deserves the honor of the name as Mr. Hoole Or the Potential as Dr. Taylor Or the Optative added to the Subjunctive as Scaliger Or since we can well explode neither with preservation of the language from its ancient barbarity whether it be not safest to retain them all as we find them ranked by our Author I shall not undertake to determine Only observe that the first intention of Language in and by the whole but teacheth modably to question define require perswade or wish according to the three formal differences of time whether present past or to come The sub-division of the time past into Did Have and Had appearing to have been invented on the same account with the three last noted Moods The Ictus or nick of time being of such quickness as preventeth our notice So that fitst To say an action is imperfectly passed is the same as to say It is passed and not passed Wherefore the exactest Latin Writers have used both promiscuously So that as for Virgils authority cited in maintenance of the contrary where he sings Hìc Templum Junoni ingens Sidonia Dido Condebat Aeneid 1. On which our Author comments Erat enim adhuc in opere I conceive our Author is there to be understood Cum grano Salis even as is the Poet. To whose design then in hand I think I need not be thought at all to derogate from his known merit if I allude a note of Ben. Johnsons viz. That Poet never credit gain'd By writing truth but things like truth well fain'd Chronologers agreeing that Troy was taken in the third year of HABDON Judge of Israel See Hel● And a Monument yet remaining near old Carthage shewing that the builders or fortifiers of the place were of the sons of Anack who had thither fled from the face of that great Robber So they call'd Joshua the son of Nun. Yet the cause of the first Punic war being by * See Sir Walter R●leigh's Hist of the world l. c. c. 5. Historiographers rendred as scarse honorable on the Roman side It might be allowable in Virgil so to represent both that Queen Place and Entertainment To the end that Aeneas his desertion being once believed to have been by an especial * Aeocid 〈◊〉 command from Jupiter he might thereon state a Theme for such a Tract on that war as should much vindicate the reputation of his Countrymen For As the Greeks waging against them as Trojans for their usurpation of a Lady prevailed The Carthaginians grounding their quarrel against them as Romans on a cause contrary might by the same Justice be render'd Authors of their own ruine And thence might he conclude with very seasonable dehortatives from effeminacy and incitements to a perseverance in that prowess which already had deified their Caesars But be it as the Poet there fansieth It appeareth that it was the verse and not the imperfection of the building that invited him to that expression The words following being Donis opulentum numine Divae Otherwise I submit it whether he might not have expressed himself by Condidit as properly as Cicero could write ad Atticum 4. ad Attic. that Postridiè manè ad eum vadebat Secondly To say it is more then perfectly passed is as to add to perfection Besides that HAD except in certain English expressions of the having motion as I had would have had c. is of no use in a single sentence And therefore cannot be more then as a Verbial Conjunction of pass'd actions Nevertheless in order to the foresaid design in Elocution we shall find both these Carabines of the Pretertense to be of