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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For the first, nothing can properly and truly work Grief, by ministry of Memory, when the Object or Evil is long since past; but those things which do withal stain our Nature, and work impressions of permanent deformity. For as it falleth out, that many things in their exercise pleasant, prove after in their operations offensive and burden some: so on the other side many things ⟨p. 222⟩which for the time of their continuance are irksome and heavy, prove yet after occasions of greater1 Joy. Whether they be means used for the procuring of further good.
For the first, nothing can properly and truly worke Griefe, by ministry of Memory, when the Object or Evill is long since past; but those things which doe withall staine our Nature, and worke impressions of permanent deformity. For as it falleth out, that many things in their exercise pleasant, prove after in their operations offensive and burden some: so on the other side many things ⟨p. 222⟩which for the time of their continuance are irkesome and heavy, prove yet after occasions of greater1 Ioy. Whether they be means used for the procuring of further good.
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Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum […] in Latium, sedes ubi; &c. Through various great mishaps & dangers store,1 We hasten to our home and wished […] ▪ Where fates do promise rest, where Troy revives, Only reserve your selves for better lives.