Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	element_n	fire_n	13,062	5	7.1789	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10701	Faultes faults, and nothing else but faultes	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1606 (1606)	STC 20983; ESTC S115897	70,812	133

of temperance of chastitie of sobrietie of integritie of life of honest conuersation and therefore worthie of double honour Such they should be and of such without doubt there be a great number And for mine owne part I protest I know a great many more that be good then I doe of those that be bad And I would to God that those of the better sort would themselues looke into the demeanour of some that are a slaunder and reproach to that honourable function that can baite his hooke with grauitie till he hath caught a Benefice and then the Surplesse must serue to couer a most vngodly carcase Those vices are most of all daungerous that are masked vnder the visour of Vertue and there is lesse hope in these counterfeit holy Hypocrites then there is in the Publicane or Harlot but for their sakes that be good I will speake no more of those that be ill I might likewise spare my labour in speaking of Philosophie because the studie of wisdome is now out of fashion And although there are not many faults to be picked out against the Philosophers of this age the number being so small yet I will glaunce a little at some errours committed by those men that haue beene especially extolled and renowmed for their Philosophie Philosophie is a strict inquisitor of the soule and it will diue into many naturall causes but the cause of all causes Philosophie knowes not The Philosophers that haue so much busied themselues to search out the causes beginnings of things could neuer find out God the Creator and maker of all things They could speake many good words concerning maners and conuersation amongst men but of God they spake nothing but dreamingly neither dreamed they of him but ouerthwartly how many grieuous incounters haue there beene amongst the Philosophers themselues and that of the grauest sort concerning the principles of naturall things whereof there are many matters that doe yet hang before the Iudge not fully decided Thales Milesius one of the wise men of Greece beginning to look into the generation of al things for the soule hee thought it immortall for the world he concluded it to haue his beginning by water Anaxagoras trusting in his owne opinion fabled that the Sunne was composed of bright iron and that the heauens were of stone wonderfully knit togither lest they should fall Euripides his scholler he feignes that the Moone had valleyes and mountaines in her and that the minde was the beginner of all motion concluding that all creatures had their creation of earth fire and water whereunto had he added the other Element of aire I thinke it would neither haue bin dissonant from reason nor repugnant from true Philosophie For the creation of the earth Archelaus will haue it of liquid water inflamed by the heate of fire and by resolution turned into dust Heraclitus he thinketh all things to haue their originall of fire concluding with Aristotle that the generation of one thing is the corruption of an other Democritus Crisippus with the rest of their coherents imagining somewhat but yet concluding nothing they referre the originall of the worlde to a litle Nothing and making vp a Something of this Chaos conclude it to be the subiect of corruption wherin they harped on a truth in their error confirming the vanitie of our Metaphisickes who wading past their reach concluded something they knew not what Vulgar Philosophers seeing the marueilous workes which bruit beastes doe performe affirme and hold no cause of maruell because they doe it by a naturall instinct Galen seeing a yong Kid but newly fallen from the damme which being sette vpon the ground it beganne to goe as if it had beene tolde and taught that his legges were made to that purpose and for further experience setting before him sundrie platters with wine water vinegar oyle and milke after the kid had smelt to them all hee fed onelie of that with milke which being beheld by diuers other Philosophers they all cryed out with one voyce that Hippocrates had great reason to say That soules were skilfull without the instruction of any teacher Galen againe woondering to see the frame of mans body considering of the seuerall parts how they were seated euery one applied to a proper vse and office by it selfe after admiration hee grew to conclude it was not possible a vegetiue soule neither yet the temperature could fashion a workmanship of such singularity but it was first vndertaken by a most wise vnderstanding In the time of Aristotle it is recorded of certain children who immediately after they were borne spake certaine wordes distinctly and plainely yet afterwardes were silent as other children of their age the Philosophers of that time not being able to coniecture the naturall cause of this effect imputed it to the diuell Aristotle much offended with this construction vndertooke of himselfe to search out this secret of Nature which although he laboured with great diligence was not able to apprehend Plato admired how it might come to passe that of two sons begotten by one father the one shuld haue the skill of versifying without any teaching and the other toyling himelfe in the Arte of Poetry could neuer beget so much as one verse I see no great cause why Plato shoulde so much wonder at that when Nature hath euermore excelled Arte yet I know there hath beene contention about this superioritie some vpholding Arte some other maintaining Nature But to speake a little of the affinitie betweene Arte and Nature wee are to consider with the Philosophers what Nature is Tully in his Offices hath this saying If wee followe Nature as our guide we shall neuer erre esteeming Nature for a god by whome our chiefest good fortunes do happen vnto vs. Aristotles Interpreters diuide Nature in twoo formes calling the one Natura Naturans and the other Natura Naturata this nature which natureth is that which Tully accompteth for a god Then if Art be compared with that which perfecteth al things it should striue with his Founder but compared with his Equall it perfecteth that so that Nature is it which presenteth the subiect and Art it that perfecteth the subiect But Art perfecteth Nature in some things and Nature excelleth Arte in many things and yet haue these two so striuen together that in Protogynes table were as faire grapes in colours as in Natures gardine they were in substance for Nature indeede not onely affecteth the sight but also the sences when Art in setting out of colours presenteth a Shape without a Substance but so are these two knit together that if Nature alow no fewel Art can make no fire and if Nature allow no colours we can haue no painting The Philsopher woulde needes tie God to the lawes of Nature who was the first creater of Nature which is nothing else more of it selfe but whatsoeuer it pleaseth God to commaund God created Nature and gaue it a lawe which lawe he will haue