Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	arm_n	foot_n	head_n	5,115	5	8.9239	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41733	The courtiers manual oracle, or, The art of prudence written originally in Spanish by Baltazar Gracian, and now done into English.; Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia. English	Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1468; ESTC R6724	108,245	306

Bonhours says in the fifth Conference of Aristus and Eugenius may serve It is far easier to perceive it than to know it saith Aristus It would be no longer I know not what if one knew what it were its nature is to be incomprehensible and inexplicable And a page after To take it right it is neither beauty nor good meen nor good grace nor briskness of humour nor sparkling wit seeing we dayly see men who have all these qualities and yet want that which pleases and others on the contrary who please much without any thing that is agreeable except this unaccountable luck So that the certainest thing that can be said of it is that the greatest merit signifies nothing without it and that it needeth no more but it self to work a very great effect It is to no purpose to be handsome witty blithe c. if the unexpressible somewhat be wanting all these fair qualities are as it were dead but also what imperfections soever one may have in body or mind with that sole advantage he is sure to please This somewhat sets all to rights From thence it follows says Eugenius that it is an agreeableness which animates beauty and the other natural perfections which corrects ugliness and other natural defects that it is a charm and an air that insinuates into all actions and words that enters into the gate laughing tone of the voice and into the least gesture of the person that pleases And four or five pages after He saith that the Spaniards have also their No so que which they bring in at every turn besides their Donayre their Brio and their Despejo which Gracian calls Alma de toda prenda realce de los mesmos realces perfeccion de la misma perfeccion and which according to the same Authour is above the reach of our thoughts and words Lisongea la intelligencia y estrana la explicacion This I mention here to shew that the Despejo is an I know not what which hath no name and that all those that are given to it are pretty words which the learned have invented to flatter their ignorance These are the terms of Father Bonhours MAXIME CXXVIII The high Courage Is one of the principal conditions required in a Heroe inasmuch as such a courage spurs him on to all that is great refines his discerning raises his heart elevates his thoughts and actions and disposes him to majesty It makes its way through wherever it is and when hard luck is cross to it it essays all ways to come off with honour The more it is confined within the bounds of possibility the more it labours its enlargement Magnanimity Generosity and all Heroick Qualities own it for their original The strong head saith Gracian chap. 4. of his Heroe is for Philosophers the good Tongue for Oratours the Breast for Wrestlers the Arms for Souldiers the Feet for Runners the Shoulders for Porters and the great Heart for Kings The Heart of Alexander was an Arch-heart seeing a whole world lodged easily in a corner of it and that six more could have found room therein That of Julius Caesar was very great seeing it found no mean betwixt all and nothing The heart is the stomach of Fortune It digests alike her favours and disgraces A great stomach is not loaded with much food A Giant is starved with that which surfeits a Dwarf That Prodigy of Valour Charles Dauphin of France and afterward King the seventh of that name being informed that his Father and the King of England his Competitour had got him declared in Parliament incapable of succeeding answered boldly That he appealed from it And when he was asked with admiration To whom To my Courage and the point of my Sword Replyed he The effect followed it Charles Emanuel the Achilles of Savoy defeated four hundred Cuirassiers having but four men to stand by him and perceiving that all were surprized at it he said that in the greatest dangers there was no company so good as a great heart The sufficiency of the heart supplies what is otherwise wanting The King of Arabia shewing his Courtiers a Damask Cutlass that had been presented to him it was the opinion of them all that the onely fault they found in it was that it was too short But the Kings Son said That there was no Weapon too short for a brave Cavalier seeing there needed no more but to advance one step to make it long enough MAXIME CXXIX Never to Complain Complaints always ruine Credit They rather excite a passion to offend us than compassion to comfort us They make way for those that hear them to doe the same to us that those have done of whom we complain and the knowledge of the injury done by the first serves the second for an excuse Some by complaining of past offences give occasion for future and instead of the remedy and consolation which they pretend they give pleasure to others and even attract their contempt It 's far better policy to publish the obligations that one hath to people thereby to stir up others to oblige also To speak often of favours received from Persons absent is to court the like from those who are present it is a selling the credit of the one to the other Thus a prudent man ought never to publish disgraces and failings but always favours and honours And this serves to preserve the esteem of Friends and to contain Enemies in their duty MAXIME CXXX To doe and make it appear Things go not for what they are but for what they appear to be To know how to doe and to know how to shew it is a double knowledge What is not seen is as if it had no being Reason it self loses its Authority when it appears not to be so There are more mistaken men than knowing men Deceit carries it cleverly in regard that things are onely considered by the outside Many things appear quite different from what they are A good out-side is the best recommendation of internal perfection MAXIME CXXXI The procedure of a gallant Man Souls have their gallantry and gentility from which arises a great heart That is a perfection not to be found in all sorts of men because it supposes a stock of generosity Its first care is to speak well of Enemies and still to serve them better In occasions of revenge it appears most conspicuously It neglects not these occasions but it is onely to make a good use of them by preferring the glory of pardoning before the pleasure of a victorious revenge That is even a politick procedure seeing the quaintest reason of state never affects these advantages because it affects nothing and when right obtains them modesty dissembles them MAXIME CXXXII To advise and revise To revise is the surest way especially when the advantage is certain It is always good to take time whether it be for granting a thing or for better deliberating New thoughts come into ones mind which confirm and fortify