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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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It wrought a deep Indignation in the Minds of Power and Wisdom to see a weak and wanton Judgement give Beauty the precedence in their Emulation. Which undervaluing of worth, how much it is able to possess a man with Grief and Fury: the one example of Ahithophel alone may discover, who upon the rejection of his counsel, when he was too low to revenge himself on Absalom, executed his Anger on his own neck.
It wrought a deep Indignation in the Minds of Power and Wisedome to see a weake and wanton Iudgement give Beauty the precedence in their Emulation. Which undervaluing of worth, how much it is able to possesse a man with Griefe and Fury: the one example of Achitophel alone may discover, who upon the rejection of his counsell, when he was too low to revenge himselfe on Absalon, executed his Anger on his owne necke.
The second Qualification of the subject is Weakness and De•ect, when the mind finds it self assaulted in those things, wherein it is most of all Deficient: which Aristotle hath observed, when he tells us, that †Sick men, Poor men and Lovers are commonly most subject to this Passion: It being as great a pain, and a greater contempt to •ub and provoke an old wound, than to make a ⟨p. 325⟩new. That injury which proceeds against men of2 high and eminent quality, cannot possibly pierce so deep as that which is exercised upon open and naked weakness: because the former proceeds only from strife and emulation; but the other from insultation and pride: the one is only a disesteem; but the other a contumely and exprobation: the one is a conflict of judgements, but the other a conflict of passions; and therefore likely to be the greater. For a neglect of worth and good parts (unless, as sometimes it falleth out, it proceeds from Baseness and Ignorance) is an injury from Worth also: but a Neglect, and despising men already down, is an injury from stomach and height of mind; wherein the party offended cannot labour so much to clear it self from the Imputation, as to revenge it self for it.