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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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CHAP. XXVI. Of the Affection of Boldness. What it is. The Causes of it, strong Desires, strong Hopes, Aides, Supplies, Real, or in Opinion. Despair and Extremities, Experience, Ignorance, Religion, Innocency, Impudenc•, Shame, Immunity from danger, Dexterity of Wit, strength of Love, Pride or greatness of Mind and Abilities. The Effects of it, Execution of things advised, Temerity, &c.
CHAP. XXVI. Of the Affection of Boldnesse. What it is. The Causes of it, strong Desires, strong Hopes, Aydes, Supplyes, Reall, or in Opinion. Despaire and Extremities, Experience, Ignorance, Religion, Innocency, Impudenc•, Shame, Immunity from danger, Dexterity of Wit, strength of Love, Pride or greatnesse of Mind and Abilities. The Effects of it, Execution of things advised, Temerity, &c.
SO little in love hav• I e•er bin with this affection of […] (as I find it managed by many, who make no other use of it, then children do of straw, with which they stuff empty clothes, that they may look like men) as that when first I writ this Tractate, I passed it over rather as a Vice, than an Affection of the Soul, and said nothing of it. And being no more friends with it now then I was then, I should be contented to have left it out still. But that I would not have the Treatise defective in such a member, whereof1 there may be so good and so ill use made, as experience showeth us there is of this. For as *Plutarch ⟨p. 259⟩notes of Egypt, that it bringeth forth multa vene•a, & multa salubria, many Good things, and many Bad: like those Creatures, some parts whereof are poison, and others restorative: so may we say of the Men in whom this Affection is predominant, that they are usually Instruments either of much Good, or of much Evil to the places