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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	family_n	parent_n	3,006	5	8.2083	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52534	Campania fœlix, or, A discourse of the benefits and improvements of husbandry containing directions for all manner of tillage, pasturage, and plantation : as also for the making of cyder and perry : with some considerations upon I. Justices of the peace and inferior officers, II. On inns and alehouses, III. On servants and labourers, IV. On the poor : to which are added two essays : I. Of a country-house, II. Of the fuel of London / by Tim. Nourse, gent.	Nourse, Timothy, d. 1699.	1700 (1700)	Wing N1416; ESTC R30752	181,404	370

other Places too wherein to bestow their Members I mean their Garrisons and Armies and truly were it not for such Issues of War a Country so luxuriant as France is would soon fall into fatal Distempers by the Redundency of its own peccant Humour So that the present Greatness of that Kingdom is not to be ascrib'd to the Temper and Dispositions of the People who generally are as light extravagant and unconstant as any Nation whatsoever but to the Maxims of their two great Cardinal Ministers and above all to the vast Prospect and Genius of the present Monarch And yet after all their Politick Methods of bestowing their Leisure-Gentlemen there are vast Numbers of them swarming in all Towns some of which live an easie supine Life others by Tennis Gaming Rooking and Cullying which some call living by their Wits and t were very well if they were made also to live by their Hands by serving an Apprenticeship in the Galleys as many of them do effectually However I do not take the great Appearance these Men make in their Towns and Cities to be an Argument of their more exceeding Number For should our English Gentry like the French quit the Country for the softer Life of the Town I doubt not but that they would make as great a Shew to the full 'T is true we of this Nation are at present falling into the like Methods with France For as long as the War lasts we are not likely to want Utterance for our Dreggs nor truly of running into our former Excesses by our wastful Profusion of Money so that we are or may be out of all danger of dying by a Plethory And yet let the Sword take off as many as it pleases there are a great many more who go the back way off the Stage by the Goal the Pox and the Gallows The pilfering stinging Wasps the buzzing Flies and the gawdy Butterflies are all of them a dronish and lazy kind of Insects which are ingender'd of Corruption by the Warmth of the Sun and fly from Place to Place corrupting and tainting all they feed upon but withal they are but short-liv'd and if there are any of the Brood I am now speaking of who survive or escape a more compendious Destiny they live but a preminary kind of Life amongst their Friends and Acquaintance and at the best end their Days in an Hospital The Dutch following the Biass of all Commonwealths have little Esteem of Nobility In this however they are most worthy our Imitation in that they make little difference betwixt Noble and Ignoble as to their Course of Life thinking all oblig'd to make Profession of some Calling by which they may be serviceable to the Publick and to themselves too For some Members to lie always idle whilst others labour p●rpetually for the Preservation of them and of the Body too is a thing very monstrous in Nature and will soon fill the Parts which want Motion with Indispositions and Tumours and draw on a Dissolution of the Whole Whereas the Industrious Man by augmenting his private Patrimony in some by sort or other of a Calling has the means of Living in his own Hands and knows how to begin a new in the World when Fortune shall reduce him to any Extremity And altho' a Gentleman does not make some Mechanick Art to be his Profession there is no Absurdity for him to make it his Recreation as well to divert his Spirits sometimes and keep him out of Idleness as also to get his Livelihood by it in case he fall into Misfortune and Poverty A thing generally practis'd by the Ottoman Princes upon Pretence that they ought to live upon their own Bread which they get by such means Nor is it one of the least Policies of the Jesuites to encourage their Missionaries hereunto or at least to initiate such amongst them who are of a working Genius making them to understand and practise some Handicrafts the better possibly to disguise their Negotiations or Missions in Places where they are not allow'd of as also to insinuate the better into all sorts of Company and to be able to live of themselves whensoever they are put to their shifts And by such means chiefly 't is that such Missionaries have made so great a Progress in the Eastern Parts of the World and elsewhere As every Family consists of several Members under the Government of one Head as Parent or Master so every Family wi●h all its dependent Members is but one larger Member of a greater Body the Commonwealth When therefore a Parent shall neglect to do his Duty in training up his Children in a regular Course of Life and Employment the Common-wealth which is the grand Parent of all Inferior and Subordinate Parents and of all their Off-spring may and ought to take care of such Members of Families as are in danger of ruining themselves and of being troublesome to he Publick and this they ought to do by placing them in some Calling or other as shall seem best to the Magistrate And 't is pity but such Laws were enacted amongst us enabling him to execute a Charge of such Importance and grounded upon so much Reason And in case Persons of loose Lives whether Gentle or Ungentle should be found Refractory and Pernicious 't were not the worst Method to cultivate them as we do those Trees which are Canker-eaten from too much luxuriancy of the Soil by pruning and lopping of their Superfluities and then transplant them into a leaner Earth and so make them capable of bearing Fruit. And truly our Western Plantations would very well agree with many unfruitful Plants with which this Kingdom is over-stock'd we having but too many of both Sexes who by too much fatness of the Ground are over-run with the Canker but being remov'd into another Climate would encrease and fructifie The Countries which are poor but not the Poor of a Country produce the best Soldiers as appears by the Switz and Highlanders of Scotland and generally in all the Northern People For Poor Vagabond Rogues are lazy dull of Apprehension Intractable and uncapable of Discipline and withal destitute of Courage and Spirit which is the Life and Soul of a Soldier when on the other hand such as are born under a hungry Climate in a sharp and cold Air like our Breed of Horses are best for Service They have sufficient to keep them from Want and therefore are not broken in their Strength and yet are not weakened by Surfeit and therefore fit for Labour and in a Capacity of bettering their Condition by the Fortune of Arms So that in an Invasive War this sort of Men are very useful for there 't is the Prey only which draws them to Action whilst they that be Rich are not only debauch'd with Ease but care not much to hazard what they have upon uncertain Events And yet in a Defensive War the Rich are best For those of scanty Fortunes have nothing to lose and therefore they