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A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
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Concerning all these, I shall observe this one general Rule; the permanency or vanishing, the multiplicity or rareness, the excess or defect of any Passion, is to be grounded on and regulated by the nature only of its object, as it bears reference to such or such a person; but never by the private humour, prejudice, complexion, habit, custom, or other like qualifications of the Mind it self. To see a man of a soft and gentle nature over-pass some small indignity, without notice or feeling; or to see a man of an hot and eager temper transported with an extremer and more during Passion, upon the sense of some greater injury, more notably touching him in his honesty or good Name; is not in either of these, any great matter of commendation: because, though the nature of the object did in both warrant the quality of the Passion; yet in those persons they both proceeded ⟨p. 52⟩out of humour and complexion, and not out of serious consideration of the injuries themselves, by which only the Passion is to be regulated.
Concerning all these, I shall observe this one generall Rule; the permanencie or vanishing, the multiplicitie or rarenesse, the excesse or defect of any Passion, is to be grounded on and regulated by the nature only of its object, as it beares reference to such or such a person; but never by the private humour, prejudice, complexion, habit, custome, or other like qualifications of the Mind it selfe. To see a man of a soft and gentle nature over-passe some small indignitie, without notice or feeling; or to see a man of an hot and eager temper transported with an extreamer and more during Passion, upon the sense of some greater injurie, more notably touching him in his honestie or good Name; is not in either of these, any great matter of commendation: because, though the nature of the object did in both warrant the qualitie of the Passion; yet in those persons they both proceeded ⟨p. 52⟩out of humour and complexion, and not out of serious consideration of the injuries themselves, by which onely the Passion is to be regulated.