The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.
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The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.
Author
Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
Publication
London :: Printed for O. B. and sold by John Sprint at the Bell in Little-Britain,
1699.
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Subject terms
Courtship -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Epithets -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
English language -- Rhyme -- Early works to 1800.
Questions and answers -- Early works to 1800.
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"The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B09731.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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CAP. 4. The Efficient alone and with others
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Q. What is that which effecteth by the second means?
A. That which effecteth alone or with others.
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Q. What are those others?
A. Some oftent imes are Principal, others are helping and Ministers.
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Q. Give an example of the Cause that effecteth by it self?
A. Aeneid. 6. Nisus called back both the blame and the punishment of the slaughter from Euryalus upon himself: be∣cause he was the onely author.
Lo here I am who only did this deed,Nations, against me turn your swords with speed.
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T' was my deceit: He could it never do,Ne would his courage serve him thereunto.
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Q. Give an example of the solitary Cause with Principals and Fellows, out of some Orator?
A. The Solitary Cause, with many, both Principals and Fellows, is diversly set forth pro Marcello. For the warlike praises (saith the Orator) they are wont to extenuate truly by words, and to detract them from their Leaders, to communi∣cate them with many, lest they should be proper to their Commanders: and certainly in War, the strength of the Soldiers, opportunity of places, help of fellows, ranks, provi∣sion do much avail. But Fortune (as it were) by her own right, challengeth the chiefest part to her self; and whatsoever is prosperously carried, that altogether she leadeth. But yet of this glory (O Caesar) which a little before thou didst obtain, thou hast no companion: all that, how much soever it is, (which truly is the chiefest) all (I say) is thine. The Pen∣turion, President, Ranks and Companies, have taken from thee none of this praise: Yea, even the Lady of Humane Af∣fairs, Fortune offereth not her self into the society of this glory; to thee she giveth place, and confesseth it all and wholly to be thine.
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Quest. Are not Instruments numbered among helping Causes?
A. Yes.
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Q. Give an example of it?
A. By this Argument the impious Epicure disputeth that the World was never made. Primo de Nat. For by what Eyes of the Mind (saith he) could your Plato behold the frame of so great a Work, whereby he maketh it con∣structed and builded of God? what labour? what iron hinges? what lever? what devices? what ministers were there of so great a work?
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