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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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Other causes of Fear might here be observed which I shall but intimate. As we fear active and busy men, because if they be provoked, they will stir and look about to revenge themselves.
Other causes of Feare might here be observed which I shall but intimate. As we feare active and busie men, because if they be provoked, they will stirre and looke about to revenge themselves.
We fear likewise Delators, because they are inquisitive and pry into the secrets of others. Plutarch compares them unto cupping glasses ⟨p. 288⟩which draw ever the worst humours of the body unto them, and to those gates through which none passed but condemned and piacular per sons. We may liken them unto flies, which resort only to the raw and corrupt parts of the body, or if they light on a sound part, never leave blowing on it, till they dispose it to putrefaction. For this is all the comfort of malevolent persons, to make others appear worse then they are, that they themselves, though they be the worst of men, may not appear so.
We feare likewise Delators, because they are inquisitive and pry into the secrets of others. Plutarch compares them unto cupping glasses ⟨p. 288⟩which draw ever the worst humours of the body unto them, and to those gates through which none passed but condemned and piacular per sons. We may liken them unto flies, which resort onely to the raw and corrupt parts of the body, or if they light on a sound part, never leave blowing on it, till they dispose it to putrefaction. For this is all the comfort of malevolent persons, to make others appeare worse then they are, that they themselves, though they be the worst of men, may not appeare so.