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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
Chapter 13: Of the other Causes of Hatred, Secret Antipathy, Difficulty of procuring a Good command…
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And this is one great cause of the different affections of men towards several courses of life; one man being of dull and sluggish apprehensions, hateth Learning: another by nature quick and of noble intellectuals wholly applieth himself unto it, the difficulty persuading the one to despise the Goodness, and the Goodness inducing the other to conquer the difficulties of it: so one man looking unto the pain of a virtuous life, contemns the reward; and another looking unto the Reward, endures the pain. And we shall usually find it true, that either Laziness, fearing disappointment, or Love being disappointed and meeting with difficulties which it cannot conquer, doth both beget a kind of Hatred and dislike of that which did either debtor them from seeking it, or deceive them when they sought it. As she, who while there was any Hope, did solicit Aeneas ⟨p. 122⟩with her tears and importunities; when he1 was quite gone did follow him with her imprecations.
And this is one great cause of the different affections of men towards severall courses of life; one man being of dull and sluggish apprehensions, hateth Learning: another by nature quicke and of noble intellectualls wholly applyeth himselfe unto it, the difficulty perswading the one to despise the Goodnesse, and the Goodnesse inducing the other to conquer the difficulties of it: so one man looking unto the paine of a vertuous life, contemnes the reward; and another looking unto the Reward, endures the paine. And wee shall usually find it true, that either Lazinesse, fearing disappointment, or Love being disappointed and meeting with difficulties which it cannot conquer, doth both beget a kind of Hatred and dislike of that which did either deterre them from seeking it, or deceive them when they sought it. As shee, who while there was any Hope, did sollicite Aeneas ⟨p. 122⟩with her teares and importunities; when he1 was quite gone did follow him with her imprecations.
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