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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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Those things more sluggishly our minds excite, Which enter at the ears, than at the sight.
Those things more sluggishly our minds excite, Which enter at the eares, than at the sight.
Sight which is the sense of Example, is oftener employed in the government of our Passions, than Hearing, which is the sense of Precept. And therefore when the Poet would sit an advise for the person of Ascanius, he doth not bring any tedious, thorny, moral discourse; but he works upon that affection which is most predominant in ingenuous and noble Natures.
Sight which is the sense of Example, is oftner imployed in the government of our Passions, than Hearing, which is the sense of Precept. And therefore when the Poet would sit an advise for the person of Ascanius, hee doth not bring any tedious, thorny, morall discourse; but he works upon that affection which is most predominant in ingenuous and noble Natures.