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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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Now those whom we thus fear, are wise men, (for so Polydamas is said to look behind and before him.) Aged men, and all whose presence we reverence as Parents, Rulers, Counsellors, Friends: Any whom we our selves Admire, or who Admire us. We fear disgrace with those whom we Admire, because their judgement of us, is in our own Apprehension, a kind of Touch-stone, which is ⟨p. 301⟩we cannot suffer the Trial off, argues us to be but corrupt and uncurrent Metal. And we fear it with those who Admire us, because as every man it willing to see his face when it is clean, in that Glass which represents it fairest: so when it is soul, of all others he shunneth that most. In the former case we are in danger to miss of what we desired; in the other, we are in danger to shipwreck what we before enjoyed.
Now those whom we thus feare, are wise men, (for so Polydamas is said to looke behind and before him.) Aged men, and all whose presence wee reverence as Parents, Rulers, Counsellers, Friends: Any whom we our selves Admire, or who Admire us. We feare disgrace with those whom we Admire, because their judgement of us, is in our own Apprehension, a kind of Touch-stone, which is ⟨p. 301⟩we cannot suffer the Tryall off, argues us to be but corrupt and uncurrant Mettail. And wee feare it with those who Admire us, because as every man it willing to see his face when it is cleane, in that Glasse which represents it fairest: so when it is soule, of all others he shunneth that most. In the former case we are in danger to misse of what wee desired; in the other, wee are in danger to shipwracke what we before inioyed.
We are apt to be ashamed with our Friends, because their opinion we value, and with our Enemies, because theirs we fear; with our Friends, because they are Grieved; with our Enemies, because they are delighted with that which shames us.
Wee are apt to be ashamed with our Friends, because their opinion wee value, and with our Enemies, because theirs we feare; with our Friends, because they are Grieved; with our Enemies, because they are delighted with that which shames us.