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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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It is a quality of all others most distant from1 nobleness and ingenuity of mind, for generous spirits will acknowledge with honour and love the virtues of their enemies; as Fabritius Lucinus, 2when many were competitors for the Consulship gave his suffrage to Cornelius Ruff•nus, the worthiest of the Company, though he were his bitter enemy: and Caesar caused the demolished statues of Pompey to be erected again, not suffering3 the honour of so brave a Commander (though his enemy) to bleed and languish under his eye. Whereupon Cicero told him that in restoring the Statues of Pompey▪ he had fastened and made sure his own. And Publius Scipio made none other use of his Enmity with Tiberius Gracchus, than to dispose his daughter unto him in marriage, because4 at that time when he was sure to judg with least favour and partiality, he found him to be a ⟨p. 148⟩virtuous and deserving man. And the Emperor Adrian, to show that he esteemed Hatred retained a base and un-princely disposition, as soon as he came to the Empire, he laid aside all his former enmities, in so much as then meeting one, who had been his capital enemy, he said unto him,5 Evasisti, thou art now escaped from my displeasure.
It is a quality of all others most distant from1 noblenesse and ingenuitie of mind, for generous spirits will acknowledg with honour and love the vertues of their enemies; as Fabritius Lucinus, 2when many were competitours for the Consulship gave his suffrage to Cornelius Ruff•nus, the worthiest of the Company, though hee were his bitter enemie: and Caesar caused the demollished statues of Pompey to be erected againe, not suffeing