Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	great_a	keep_v	king_n	2,594	5	3.5237	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28452	The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3321; ESTC R15301	117,120	245

credit of behaviour to set forth your good parts fairly and clearly and to cover imperfection Men are ignorant and therefore by good expressions without raunting or affectation you shall gain a more general opinion then by sufficiency smothered in too modest a silence By Interrogation thus Are not most men ignorant shall you not then by quaint expressions withoutraunting or affectation please more and get a more general good opinion then by great sufficiency concealed by your own shamefastness To dissemble excellencies is good policy in him whom his course must at length necessarily draw into light and proof and then all that he delivers will be admirable because expectation forestall'd nothing of his worth which may likewise be turned into an Interrogation and is very fit for a speech addressed to many illiterate hearers is much used in Pirocles Oration to the seditious multitude and then it may be well frequented and iterated Did the Sun ever bring fruitful Harvest but was more hot then pleasant Have you any of your children that be not sometimes cumbersom Have you any Fathers that be not sometimes froward shall we therefore curse the Sun hate our children and disobey our Fathers An example of many Interrogations Have you not seen a stately kinde of courtesie and a proud kinde of humility have you not seen a wise man withdraw himself from mean company with better grace and more kindeness then some silly Gentleman that has bestowed himself on fools thrown himself down into the midst of his miseries doth not a commendations a hat a good word a good-morrow p●rchase more hearts then a moneths familiar pratling with a flock of rude people Do you converse with your superiors to learn of them to be able to judge them and benefit your self And shall not your inferiours do the like with you Is it not a safer gain of popularity with ceremonies then with discovering your Nature Many such like Interrogations might be added but let it suffice that it is easie and gentile to sharpen the flats of affirmations and down-right telling of Tales EXCLAMATION is not lawful but in the extremity of motion as Pyrocles seeing the mild Philoclea innocently beheaded cryed out O Tyrant Heaven and Traytor Earth blind Providence how is this done How is this suffered Hath this world a Government The like in the beginning of the second book of the Arcadia in the person of Ginetia tormented in mind O Sun O Heavens O Deserts O Vertue O imperfect proportion And in another Author thus O endless endeavour O vain-glorious Ignorance Dost thou desire to be known Where In Europe how canst thou be famous When Asia and Africa that have thrice as many people hear not of thy actions Art not thou then thrice as obscure as thou art renowned Dost thou look that all the world should take notice of thee when for five thousand years three parts of the world took no notice of the fourth But Europe is the house of Fame beca●se it is the Nursery of Arts and Books wherein reports are preserved O weak imagination O self-pleasing fancy Canst thou expect in these parts from 40 degrees to 90 Northward such praises and honours for thy name when every Map on every wall shews thee as much space from 40 to 90 Southward inhabited with nothing but silence and forgetfulness ACCLAMATION is a sententious clause of a discourse or a report such as Daniel in his Poems concludes with often It is a generall instruction for every man commonly for his pains in reading a History or other mens Books for some privat use of it to himself Like a Cash-keeper who drawing great sums of other mens money challenges somwhat in the pound for his own Fee It serves for Amplification when after a great crime or Desert exclaim'd upon or extol'd it gives a morall note worth credit and observation As after the true relation of Scipio Africanus's course who having been chief governor of the greatest Armies in the world having all his life time Kings suiters for his favour and nations kept in awe of his Name yet in 56 years neither bought nor sold goods or lands built any House or Castle of his own left not above 46. l. in Gold and 6. l. in silver behind him at his death It may be folded up in this Acclamation So little need has he to stoop to privat cares that thrives upon publick victories and so small leasure has he to be desirous of riches that hath been so long possest and satisfied with honor which is the immortall end of mortal actions Such notes are th●se scraps of policy which some now-a-days gather out of Polybius and Tacitus and not unlike are the Morals that hang upon Esops Fables This Acclamation sometimes is the cause and reason of a former Narration as a story of one who being a servant to a family and of mean quality won the doting love of a witty Lady in the House whereas she never looked upon the humble suits the cunning insinuations the noble deserts of many lovers of higher degree but with free judgment and careless censure This close may follow So hard entrance hath affection into a heart prepared to suspition especially in the weakest natures whose safeguard is mistrust So easie is the increase of love by insensible steps when the service you offer seems to proceed out of the goodness of your own disposition which women expect to be permanent and not out of the necessity of your suit which may force you for the time to a wained difference from the proper humor Yet if this be too much used it is like a note-book gathered out of Histories Contrary to Amplification is DIMINUTION and this descends by the same steps that Amplification ascends and differs no more then up Hill and down Dale which is the same way begun out of severall sentences Yet some examples in Arcadia will make you observe two ways of Diminishing single terms one by denying the contrary As if you should say But reasonably pleasant Arcadia speech is Not unpleasant hardly liked nor misliked But why should I give examples of the most usuall phrases in the English tongue as we say Not the wisest that ever we saw for a man of small wisdome The second way is by denying the right of the words but by error of some As Those fantasticall mind-infected people which Children and Musicians call Lovers That misfortune of letting fall his Dagger which the rude Swaggerers of our time call being disarmed That opinion of honesty which hath lately been so proudly translated by the Souldier into the word Honor. And such like But the former fashion of Diminution sometimes in Ironious sort goes for Amplification As speaking of a great personage No mean man This is an ordinary Figure for all kinds of speeches The Figures following serve for Amplification 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a composition of contraries and by both words intimates the meaning of neither precisely but a moderation and