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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.
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The Greeks by venturing did enjoy Their ten years wish, and gained Troy,
The Greeks by venturing did enjoy Their ten yeares wish, and gained Troy,
2 There is a ahasty and rash Boldness, which beginning too speedily without Counsel doth usually end too Cowardly, without Courage; for rash ⟨p. 273⟩men whom the Philosopher calls [Greek or Hebrew] men made up of confidence and fear, are bold and boasting before a Danger; but in it very timorous▪ or at least inconstant. Lyons in peace, but Harts in war, as Tertullians Proverb hath it. aLike those of whom Livy and Florus tell us, That they were more than men in the onset, and less than women in the issue, melting away from their Resolutions like Snow.
2 There is a ahasty and rash Boldnesse, which beginning too speedily without Counsell doth usually end too Cowardly, without Courage; for rash ⟨p. 273⟩