Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	soul_n	spirit_n	5,254	5	5.2345	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07786	The true knowledge of a mans owne selfe. Written in French by Monsieur du Plessis, Lord of Plessie Marly. *And truly translated into English by A.M..	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Xenophon. Memorabilia.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1602 (1602)	STC 18163; ESTC S103514	52,106	260

placed that those before do cut the meat and those behind chewe prepare it for the passage so may we say of the mouth wherby the foode hath conuoy to the stomack being seated vnder the eyes and nostrills but the cōduit of offensiue superfluities is placed behinde and far from the seueral seates of the sences least it shoulde be any way hurtful vnto them These things which thou discernest to bee made by so great a prouidence whether doost thou attribute them to Fortune or to counsell and deliberation Aristo Assuredlie these thinges seeme to mee to bee the workmanship of a most wise Creator Socr. And the naturall great desire vvee haue to beget a continuation of linage as also of mothers to nourish their young chyldren when they become great a care for theyr liuing and then the mightie feare they haue of theyr death Ari. In sooth al these thinges are the workes of him who had a will that by counsel reason and deliberation his creatures shoulde bee made liuing hauing both sence and moouing Socra Dooth it appeare to thee that thou hast any discretion whereby thou makest apprehension or iudgment of these thinges Thou hast in thee a little portion of thys earth which thou seest to be so great a small quantitie of humour which is of so large aboūdance in the world nowe considering eyther of these thinges to be so great yet thou hast of eyther some smal portion and altogether being so assembled in thy body as thou couldest haue no vnderstāding at all except they were in this sort ordered These thinges I say being so great and in multitude infinite howe doost thou imagine but that they should be well ordained Arist. I can no way perceiue their ordenation as I behold the order of other workmēs labours Socr. Why euen so thou canst no way beholde thy soule which directs and gouerns at her pleasure all thy whole bodie yea and in such sort as thou mightest else say thou doost all thinges without counsell reason or deliberation but that onely raiseth regard of feare and trembling Arist. I vvoulde be lothe to neglect the Gods but doe holde and esteeme them so great as wee shoulde haue nothing els to do but to be reuerent onelie toward them Socra The greater then thou esteemest them to bee the more thou oughtest to honour them Arist. If I wist that they had any care of men I woulde adore them and neuer neglect them Socra VVhy howe canst thou thinke but that they haue care and regarde of vs seeing man is made onely aboue and beyond al other creatures to goe vpright to fore-see many thinges intended to him and to gouerne all other creatures vnder him hauing eyes eares and a mouth bestowed vpon him And though to some he haue giuen but feet as to Serpents yet to mā he hath giuē hands to garde himselfe from many outrages wherin we are more happy then other creatures And albeit other beastes haue tongues yet to man onely it is giuen to turne his tongue from one side of his mouth to the other thereby to forme an intelligible voyce to dispose and make known his thoughts to others Now not onely is this care taken of our bodies but much more of our inward spirits For where or when did any other creature euer thinke or consider that God was the Creator of the very best and greatest thinges Or what kinde else onely man excepted dyd euer or can giue honor to God or keep himselfe from cold heate famine thirst other inconueniences Or shun diuersitie of diseases Or by exercise gather strength ability and learning or retain longer and more faithfully what-soeuer is to be vnderstood Seemes it not then to thee that man onely is as a God amongst all other creatures more excellent and out-going them both in body and minde Vndoubtedly if man had had the body of an Oxe hee coulde not haue doone what soeuer he would such as haue hands without any other part of inward spirit haue somwhat to bee reckoned of much more then they that haue no hands at all But thou that hast handes and vnderstanding canst thou think that God hath not care and respect of thee Doost thou not think that the most auncient and wisest Citties are those that most dilligently carefully doe honour the Gods Learne learne my friend that thy soule gouerns thy body likewise that the good spirit which containeth all thinges directeth all thinges at his good pleasure Thinkest thou that thine owne eye can see many thinges farre off that Gods eye doth not discerne them altogether Or that thy minde may conceite at one instant what is doone in Athens Scicilie Egypt or elsewhere and the Diuine Spirit or minde dooth not know all things directly together Yes hold and beleeue it for most certaine that God sees heares regards and hath care of thee me all thinges else whatsoeuer together FINIS A Directorie for the Readers more easie and speedie apprehension of the speciall matters handled in this Treatise WHat benefit a man gaines by the knowledge of himselfe page 2. What the Soule is page 3 Of the vertues and powers in the soule page 4 Of nourishment and the manner of the bodies nourishment page 5 6. Of Choller Mellancholie phlegme page 8 Of the blood and how it is receiued page 9 Of three kindes of digestion to perfect nourishment page 11 That the inconvenience of the first digestion is not holpen by the other page 14 Some mens oppinion concerning the Soule 16 The hurt of intemperancie page 17 Sixe things not naturally in vs. page 18 The benefit of labour to the body page 19 The hurt of immoderat exercise to the body 21 Of sleepe how it benefits the body and helpes the powers of the soule page 22 24 How heat blood do work for the hart 24. Of dreames in sleepe their kindes causes examples page 31 32 33 34 c. Of the increase of nourishment when nature receiueth most substaunce to her selfe 38 39 How naturall heat groweth or decaieth in vs 41 Of death naturall and vnnaturall page 43 Of generation how the fruite is formed 44 Of the offices veines and arteries of the membrane page 46 47 How the nauill is made and in what time 48 Of the places for the liuer hart and braine 50 How the liuer is formed and what it is 50 How the bowels are fastened to the back 51 How Diaphragma is formed page 52 Of the back bones and forming of the hart 53 Of the harts nourishment page 54 That the hart is the beginner of vitall heat 55 How the lungs and lites are formed and consequently the bodies height page 57 Of the forming of the braine and skull of the head page 57 58 Of the marrow in the chine bone of the backe page 60 How the fruite is nourished in the wombe and the bloods deuision into 3. parts 60 61 62 How the power Vegetatiue nourisheth the body and