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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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Which dissipation and scattering of Passion, as it is wrought principally by this mutual confounding of them amongst themselves, so in some particular cases likewise, two other ways; namely, by communion in diverse subjects, and extension on diverse objects. For the first, we see in matter of Grief, the Mind doth receive (as it were) some lightness and ⟨p. 55⟩comfort, when it finds it self generative unto others, and produces sympathy in them: For hereby it is (as it were) disburdened, and cannot but find that easier, to the sustaining whereof, it hath the assistance of another's shoulders. And therefore they were good (though common) observations:
Which dissipation and scattering of Passion, as it is wrought principally by this mutuall confounding of them amongst themselves, so in some particular cases likewise, two other wayes; namely, by communion in diverse subjects, and extension on diverse objects. For the first, we see in matter of Griefe, the Mind doth receive (as it were) some lightnesse and ⟨p. 55⟩comfort, when it finds it selfe generative unto others, and produces sympathie in them: For hereby it is (as it were) disburthened, and cannot but find that easier, to the sustaining whereof, it hath the assistance of anothers shoulders. And therefore they were good (though common) observations:
Cur• leves loqu•ntur, ingentes stupent: And, Ille dolet vere, qui sine teste dolet. Our tongues can lighter Cares repeat, When silence swallows up the great: He grieves indeed, who on his friend Untestified tears doth spend.
Cur• leves loqu•ntur, ingentes stupent: And, Ille dolet vere, qui sine teste dolet. Our tongues can lighter Cares repeat, When silence swallowes up the great: He grieves indeed, who on his friend Vntestified teares doth spend.