Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	father_n	king_n	servant_n	3,226	4	6.7708	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48625	VVar and peace reconciled, or, A discourse of constancy in inconstant times containing matter of direction and consolation against publick calamities / written originally in a foreign language and translated for the benefit of the gentrie of this nation.; De constantia. English	Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.; Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing L2365; ESTC R610	89,515	324

a remarkable Tyranny in it and for I 'le run the hazzard I will then confess that we are the most wretched of all that are miserable Why do you not reply I see that old Sarcasme is true all the good Princes may be registred in a Ring For it is natural to Man to use authority insolently and hardly to keep a mean in that which it self is above it Even we our selves who complain of Tyranny do yet carry the seeds of it inclosed in our bosoms Nor is there a Will wanting in most of us to discover them but the power A Serpent vvhen he is benummed with cold hath poyson within him though he do not exert it 'T is the same in us whom only weakness keeps innocent and a kind of Winter in our Fortunes Give but power give means and I fear that the most of those that accuse would transcend the example of their superiours This is every dayes instance see that Father stern with his Children that Master with his Servants and that School-Master with his Scholars Each of them is a Phalaris in his kind and raise the same waves in their Brooks as Kings do in their greater Seas The same Nature is discernible in other creatures most of which prey upon their own kind both in the Air the Earth and the Water So greater Fish devour the smaller fry And weaker Fowle under the Goshauks die sayes Varro truly but you will say these are the oppressions of Bodies only But this is the peculiar of our age that ours are of the Soul also Take heed you speak not this with more malice than truth That Man seems to me to be little skilled in the knowledge of himself and the heavenly nature of the Soul that thinks it can be forced or compelled For no outward violence whatsoever can make you will that which you do not will or to yield to that which you do not assent to Some have power over the bond and tye of the Soul but none over it self A tyrant may loose it from the Body but he cannot dissolve the nature of it which being pure eternal siery dispises every external or violent attempt But we may not speak our own thoughts Be it so The bridle then curbs your Tongue only not your Mind your Actions but not your Judgment But even this is new and unheard of Good Man how are you mistaken How many can I point you out who have suffered under Tyrants for their opinions through the heedlesness of their tongues How many of those Tyrants have endeavoured to compel mens Judgements and their Judgements too in matters of Religion It vvas the common custom of the Persians and the Eastern Nations to adore their Kings and we know that Alexander challenged to himself that divine adoration with the ill will of his ruder Macedonians Amongst the Romans that good and moderate Emperour Augustus had in the Provinces yes in every house Flamens and Priests as a God Caligula cutting off the Heads from the Statues of the Gods with a ridiculous impiety caused his own to be placed upon them The same instituted a Temple Priests and chosen Sacrifices to his own deity Nero would be taken for Apollo and the most illustrious of the City were slain under this accusation that they had never sacrificed to the heavenly voice Domitian was openly called our Lord and God Which vanity or impiety if it were found at this day in any of our Kings what vvould you then say Lipsius I vvill sail no nearer this Scylla into which no vvinds of ambition shall either betray or force me For a secure old age is the reward of silence I will bring in only one testimony of the ancient slavery in this respect and that shall be out of an Author you are well acquainted vvith and I vvould have you to attend him 'T is Tacitus in the reign of Domitian We read sayes he that when Petus Thrasea was praised by Arulenus Rusticus and Priscus Helvidius by Herennius Senecio it was capital to them both Nor did the cruelty extend it self only to the Authors but also to their Works Charge being given to the Triumvirs that the monuments of those excellent wits should be burnt in the Forum and Comitium supposing by that one fire to have suppressed the voice of the people of Rome the liberty of the Senate and the conscience of Mankind The professours also of Wisdom were banished and all ingenious arts proscribed lest there should any where appear the least footsteps of honesty We gave certainly a grand example of our patience and as the foregoing ages saw the utmost height of liberty so did we of slavery the commerce of hearing and speaking being barred and in danger by informers VVe had certainly lost our memories together vvith our speech if it had been as much in our power to forget as it was to be silent CHAP. XXVI Lastly that these evils are neither strange nor new But common to all Nations and Men whence we may derive comfort I Have done vvith comparison and now I bring up the other Brigade of my Legion vvhich opposes the novelty of these Calamities But briefly and by vvay of Triumph For it rather takes the spoiles of the already conquered enemy than fights vvith him And to speak truth vvhat is there in these things that can appear new to any man that is not himself a gross Ignaro in humane affairs Crantor said excellently and vvisely who alwayes had this verse in his Mouth Ah me and why ah me VVe suffered but a humane misery For these Calamities do daily move in a Circle and in a kind of round pass through this round World Why do you sigh that these sad things fall out Why do you vvonder at it O Agamemnon thou wert not To pleasing things alone begot But to equal hopes and fears Interchange of joys and tears For thou art mortal humane born and though Thou should'st refuse the Gods will have it so It vvere rather a vvonder that any should be exempted from this common Law and should not have his part in that burthen vvhich lyes upon the backs of all Solon vvhen a friend of his at Athens was sadly be wailing himself he brings him into the Tower and from the top of it shews him all the houses of that great City Think vvith your self sayes he how many sorrows have heretofore been under these roofs now are and hereafter shall be And then cease to lament the evils of Mankind as if they vvere your own only I vvish I could give you the like prospect of this vvide World Lipsius but since it is not to be done actually let us imagine it I place you upon the top of some high Mountain Olympus if you please look down now upon all those Cities provinces and Kingdoms beneath And think that you see but so many inclosures of humane Calamities the Amphitheatres and as it vvere the Sands in vvhich the bloody sports of Fortune are exhibited You