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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.
Now according to the difference of this Affection in different men, so it worketh two different1 Effects.
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1 There is a Happy and Discreet boldness, which doth not anticipate, but second and attend the mature counsels of the mind, and doth first call out and stir up it self by wisdom, before it proceed unto Action▪ or Execution▪ like the Boldness of the Lyon, which is Slow, but at last prospers in what it undertakes. For after Counsel hath ripened Resolutions, Boldness is then the best Instrument to accomplish them, and in that case, quo minus timoris, minus fermè perituli, as the Historian speaks. The less fears are, the less also are their dangers, and the greater their Confidence, the surer their success:
1 There is a Happy and Discree• boldnesse, which doth not anticipate, but second and attend the mature counsels of the minde, and doth first call out and stirre up it selfe by wisedome, before it proceed unto Action▪ or Execution▪ like the Boldnesse of the Lyon, which is Slow, but at last prospers in what it undertakes. For after Counsell hath ripened Resolutions, Boldnesse is then the best Instrument to accomplish them, and in that case, quo minus timoris, minus fermè perituli, as the Historian speaks. The lesse feares are, the lesse also are their dangers, and the greater their Confidence, the surer their successe: