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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.
But to pass over these particulars, I shall in the general content my self with a brief Consideration of the Causes and Effects of this Passion.
But to passe over these particulars, I shall in the generall content my selfe with a briefe Consideration of the Causes and Effects of this Passion.
The Fundamental and Essential Cause of1 Anger, is Contempt from others meeting with the love of our selves. Whether it be disestimation and undervaluing of a mans person, or disappointment of his purposes, or slandering his good name, or any other way of casting injury on him. or any of these particulars being impaired (if by such on whom we may hope to receive revenge) do work not only Anxiety and Grief (which is a motion of slight) but hope also and desire to ease it self, if not in the recovery of its own loss, yet in the comfort of another mans: For Calamity2 (as the Historian speaks) is ever either querulous or malignant, Cum suo malo torquetur, quiescit dying. When it feels it self wrung and pinched, it quickly proceeds either by justice or revenge to please it self in † retaliation.
The Fundamentall and Essentiall Cause of1 Anger, is Contempt from others meeting with the love of our selves. Whether it be disestimation and undervaluing of a mans person, or disappointment of his purposes, or slandering his good name, or any other way of casting injury on him. or any of these particulars being impaired (if by such on whom we may hope to receive revenge) doe worke not only Anxiety and Griefe (which is a motion of slight) but hope also and desire to ease it selfe, if not in the recovery of its own losse, yet in the comfort of another mans: For Calamity2 (as the Historian speaks) is ever either querulous or malignant, Cum suo malo torquetur, quiescit dien. When it feels it selfe wrung and pinched, it quickly proceeds either by justice or revenge to please it selfe in † retaliation.