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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
Chapter 31: Of other Causes of Anger: first in regard of him that suffers wrong: Excellency, Weakne…
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Those which follow, are more Accidental: whereof some may be considered ex parte Patientis, on the part of him that suffers; and some ex parte Inferentis Injuriam, on the part of him that doth the Injury. Touching the patient or subject of an Injury, there are three Qualifications, which may make him more inclinable to Anger, upon supposition of the Fundamental Cause, Contempt: and the1 first of these is Excellency, whether Inward from Nature, or Accidental from Fortune: For hereby men are made more jealous of their Credit, and impatient of Abuse, as well perceiving that all Injury implies some degree both of Impotency in ⟨p. 324⟩the Patient, and of Excellency (at least conceited) in the Agent. As Aristotle speaks, [Greek or Hebrew],2 that Injurious men are commonly highly conceited of their own Excellency, which cannot well stand with the height and distance of that mind which is possessed with his own good opinion ▪ and this cause the Poet intimates in those words▪
THose which follow, are more Accidentall: whereof some may be considered ex parte Patientis, on the part of him that suffers; and some ex parte Inferentis Injuriam, on the part of him that doth the Injury. Touching the patient or subject of an Injury, there are three Qualifications, which may make him more inclinable to Anger, upon supposition of the Fundamentall Cause, Contempt: and the1 first of these is Excellency, whether Inward from Nature, or Accidentall from Fortune: For hereby men are made more jealous of their Credit, and impatient of Abuse, as well perceiving that all Injury implies some degree both of Impotency in ⟨p. 324⟩the Patient, and of Excellency (at least conceited) in the Agent. As Aristotle speaks, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,2