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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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No joy in greatness can compare with that, Which doth our Hopes and thoughts anticipate.
No joy in greatnesse can compare with that, Which doth our Hopes and thoughts anticipate.
So strong and violent hath been the immutation which sudden joy hath wrought in the Body, athat many (as I have formerly noted) have been quite overwhelmed by it, and been made partakers of Augustus his wish to enjoy an b[Greek or Hebrew] and to dye pleasantly. And for this Reason it is that cnew things, and such as we dadmire, and were anot before acquainted withal do usually Delight us, because they surprise us, representing a kind of strangeness unto the mind, whereby it is enlarged and enriched. For strange and New things have ever the greatest price set upon them. As I noted before of the Roman Luxury, That it gloried in no Delicates but those which were brought out ofb strange Countries, and did first pose Nature, before either feed or adorn it.
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