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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	brave_a	courage_n	great_a	29	3	2.0896	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84612	Five philosophical questions, most eloquently and substantially disputed: Viz: I. Whether there be nothing new in the world. II. Which is most to be esteemed; - an inventive wit, judgement, or courage. III. Whether truth beget hatred, and why. IV. Of the COCK; and whether his crowing doth affright the lion. V. Why dead bodies bleed in the presence of their murtherers.		1650 (1650)	Wing F1117; Thomason E615_11; ESTC R206547	21,350	36

stopped the designes of his enemy and made them unprofitable In private businesse one puffe of wind upon the Sea one warre hapning between two neighbouring estates one change of some customes by land have need of more Wit than of Judgement or Courage to save you harmlesse from shipwrack and losse In the Courts of Law their Replies are pieces of Wit Yea Wit is of so great esteem with every one that all the perfections of the Soule are comprised in this word The French when they would expresse all that may be said of man beside the comelinesse and graces of his body say onely he is homme d'esprit I therefore think that the Inventive Wit ought to be preferred before Judgement which is of no use but onely in such affaires as afford and require choice as Courage is only for dangers The second said In vaine have men Wit if they want Judgement to guide it as for the most part it comes to passe So that ordinarily they are accounted opposites Also fooles want not that sharpnesse of Wit which serves for Invention nay rather both it and Courage are sharpned and made more active by the heat of frenzie But it is Judgement that they want the losse of which makes them be called fooles Which is observeable in the same company which was but now mentioned Wherethe Engineire or sharp-witted man will talke of very fine things but he poures them out like a torrent and without discretion whereas the Judicious man shall give better content than either of them though he speake fewer things of the businesse in hand than they doe But the Couragious man is apt to give distaste it being usuall with such to run beyond the bounds of that respect which other tempers are ashamed not to use for Judgement proceeds from a coldnesse of temper opposite to that heat which causeth promptnesse of Wit and Courage In war the Inventions and Courage aforesaid are also ordinarily not only unprofitable but also hurtfull without Judgement Which also in traffick is the thing that directs the Merchant in his choice of the severall designes which he proposeth to himselfe and of the meanes to attaine his ends without which deliberation nothing comes to a good end neither in warre nor merchandize The third said that the most couragious doe alwayes give lawes to the rest and so cause themselves to be esteemed above them For in the first place if the company aforesaid be of knowing men before whom you are to speak Your invention and disposition the effects of wit and judgement will stand you in no stead if you have not the Courage to pronounce your Oration as we see in the Oration which Cicero had penned for Milo Nay it is impossible to invent well if you want Spirit which gives life to all actions which have the approbation of all men whether at the Barre or else-where so that they call them Brave actions and full of Spirit And if Courage be of esteeme in all actions then in Warre it is esteemed above all and the Laws punishing cowardlinesse not the defects of Wit or Judgement do plainly shew that they esteem Courage more than either of the other The fourth said That those which speak in favour of Wit and Courage employing their judgement in the choyce of the reasons which they produce do sufficiently shew that judgement is above them as being the cause that they are esteemed For you know the Philosophers maxime the cause hath a greater portion of whatsoever it communicates to the effect than the effect it selfe hath Also the Judge is greater than the Advocates to whom we may compare the Wit because it proposes the means and the Judgement makes choice of them and as for Courage if it be without Judgement it deserves not the name Without Judgement the inventions of the Wit are nothing but Castles in the aire and empty phantasies like a ruined house without chambers or any other requisites Such Wits for want of Judgement dwell upon nothing but alwayes skip from bough to bough and from conceit to conceit which for that cause are not ordinarily so profitable to their inventors as to the judicious who better know how to make use of them In truth you shall find most of the inventions in those which have least practice their in experience making many things easie which practice shews to be impossible and therefore they never found entrance in the Phantasie of a Practicioner Also there is more courage found in beasts than in men and in men we often see that the most couragious are not the most judicious but according as the quick-silver fixes in them by age so they grow lesse and lesse inventive and lesse resolute to expose themselves to such perils as their foolish youth and want of experience caused them to undervalue And to say the truth the Judicious man hath all the Wit and Courage that he should have for he that invents or proposes things contrary to a sound Judgement goes for a foole but he that hath Judgement cannot want Courage for these two cannot stand together to be judicious and yet not to forsee that Courage is necessary in dangers for the avoyding and overcomming of them So that he that saith a man is Judicious presupposeth Wit and Courage in him but not on the contrary there being many couragious but neither judicious nor inventive and more that have Wit without Judgement The fifth said that all our actions being composed all the faculties contribute to them and they must needs be faulty if they be not seasoned with Wit Judgement and Courage but if wee compare them together the Wit is the most delectable the Judgement most profitable and the Courage is most esteemed FINIS VVhether Truth beget Hatred and why TRUTH is an affection or quality of speech agreeing with our thought or apprehension Whence it followes that to speak the truth it is sufficient to speak of things as wee think of them whether wee have conceived of them aright or no. For which reason they say in Latin mentiri est contra mentem ire Yet there are two sorts of Truths the one single which is the truth of the termes as also there is an untruth of the termes for there neither is nor ever was any such thing as a Chimaera the other is composed truth which is an indicative speech wherin wee affirme or deny something of some other thing which manner of speech is only capable of truth or falshood For truth properly taken is when not only our discourse agrees with the species which is in our understanding but also when this species agrees with the thing spoken of So that truth may bee called the measure or agreement of any thing with the understanding and of the understanding with the speech concerning that thing This truth may be againe divided according to the difference of its objects into naturall which treateth of the nature of every thing and civill which speaketh only

teeth at first comming are new And so are all other conditions of Clarkship and Priesthood and Widowhood and almost infinite others Yea many things that seeme not at all to be new yet are so as a River seemes very ancient and yet it renewes it selfe every moment so that the water that now runs under the Bridge is not that which was there yesterday but still keeps the same name though it be altogether other indeed We our selves are renewed from time to time by our nourishments continuall restauration of our wasted triple substance Nor can any man doubt but that there are new Diseases seeing nothing is written of them in the bookes of the Ancients nor of the remedies to cure them and that the various mixtures of the qualities which produce them may be in a manner innumerable and that both sorts of Pox were unknowne to the Ancients But this novelty appeares yet better in mens actions and divers events in them which are therefore particularly called Newes Such are the relations of Battailes Sieges takings of Townes and other accidents of life so much the more considerable by how much they are ordinarily lesse regarded It were also too much injustice to goe about to deprive all Inventors of the honour due to them maintaining that they have taught us no new thing Doe not the Sectaries and Heresiarchs make new Religions Moreover who will make any question whether we have not reason to aske what new things Affrick affords nowadayes it having beene so fertile in Monsters which are bodies entirely new as being produced against the lawes of Nature And when the King calls downe money changeth the price of it determines its weight is not this a new ordinance In short this is to goe about to pervert not onely the signification of words but also common sense in maintaining that there is nothing new and it had not beene amisse if the Regent which printed such Paradoxes in a youthfull humour had never beene served with new-laid eggs nor changed his old cloathes and if he had complained answer might have beene made That there is nothing new The fourth said that there are no new substances and by consequence no new substantiall formes but onely accidentall ones seeing Nothing is made of Nothing or returnes to Nothing and in all the other Classes of things there are no new species but onely new individuals to which Monsters are to be referred Yea the mysteries of our Salvation were alwayes in intellectu Divino Which made our Saviour say that Abraham had seene him And as for Arts and Inventions they flourished in one Estate whilst they were unknowne in another where they should appeare afterward in their time And this is the sense wherein it is true that There is nothing new FINIS VVhich is most to be esteemed an Inventive VVit Judgement or Courage THe life of man is intermingled with so many accidents that it is not easie to foresee them and though our prudence could doe that yet it belongs to the Inventive faculty to provide for them without which the Judgement remàines idle Even as a Judge cannot give sentence till the Advocates or Proctors have let him understand the arguments and conclusions of both parties that he may know to whether side he ought to incline which in us is the office of the Wit or Invention to doe Without which also Courage is but a brutish fury which inconsiderately throwes us headlong into danger and so loses its name and is called foole-hardinesse It is the good wit that enables us to doe and say things in the instant when there is need of them without which they are unseasonable like the Trojans Embassage sent to the Roman Emperour to comfort him for the losse of his sonne who died a yeare before they came and therefore he requited their kindnesse with comforting them for the losse of Hector their fellow Citizen slaine by Achilles in the time of the war between the Trojans and the Greeks above 1200 yeares before It is the Wit that seasons all the discourses and actions of men who make no other distinctions of good and evill of wisdome and folly but by our speaking or doing things fit for every occasion which is the act of the Wit and not of the Judgement or Courage although in great and heroicall actions all the vertues are to be found inseparably chained together witnesse all those neat flashes of wit witty speeches and replies made upon the sudden which have alwayes gotten their authours more honour favour than their premeditated words and actions to which the Judgement contributes more largely than the other two It is the Wit that by its inventions drew men from their caves and the life of beasts to give them palaces food raiment conversation and in a word all the commodities of life which we enjoy at this present For the better deciding of this question suppose in one company three men differently endued the one having a good Wit the second a ripe Judgement and the third a great Courage This last man can beare with nothing the judicious man will say nothing which he hath not first well pondered he will rather hold his peace and both of them may find much diversion in the inventions of the ingenious man who also if they fall out will finde a meanes to make them friends againe whereas the judicious man would use so many circumspections that their quarrell would grow old and be past the estate of accommodation wherein it was when he began to seeke the meanes of agreement whilest the other being meerly couragious would heare nothing to that purpose But their ingenious companion will finde a remedy for all these difficulties and will shew them the way by his owne example none being harder to be reconciled than those which are not at all ingenious In warre the couragious I grant will run headlong into danger more readily The judicious will delay an enterprise oftentimes employing that time in consultation which should have beene spent in execution but the Engineir like Archimedes will defend a Towne all alone or will set upon a Fort and subdue it by the force of his inventions better than a thousand men could have done with handy strokes As we may see in stratagems which have more successe than open force so that it is become a Proverbe Cunning is better than Force Antigonus having scattered many Bils of Proscription wherein he promised a great summe to him that should kill Eumenes many of the souldiers of Eumenes began to plot his death till Eumenes as soone as he heard of it called his men together to thank them for their fidelity telling them that he having beene informed that some of his owne souldiers had a designe upon his person thought good to scatter those Bils under the name of Antigonus that so he might discover those which had the traiterous intent but he thanked them he found no such villaines amongst them This straine of Wit