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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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Another cause of Anger may be strong Desires: 1For always vaster and more exact our desires are, it is so much the harder for them to be pleased or satisfied. And therefore as the Philosopher notes, Luxurious men are usually transported with Anger,2 because men love not to be stopped in their pleasures: and hence as Plutarch observes, men are3 usually most angry there, where their desires are most conversant: as a Country-man with his Bailiff; or an Epicure with his Cooke; or a Lover with his Corrival, because all these cross men in that which they most love. Now strength when it is opposed, is collected and gathered into the more excess; as we see in Winds or Rivers, when they meet with any thing which crosseth their full passage.
Another cause of Anger may be strong Desires: 1For alwaies vaster and more exact our desires are, it is so much the harder for them to be pleased or satisfied. And therefore as the Philosopher notes, Luxurious men are usually transported with Anger,2 because men love not to be stopped in their pleasures: and hence as Plutarch observes, men are3 usually most angry there, where their desires are most conversant: as a Country-man with his Bayliffe; or an Epicure with his Cooke; or a Lover with his Corrivall, because all these crosse men in that which they most love. Now strength when it is opposed, is collected and gathered into the more excesse; as we see in Winds or Rivers, when they meet with any thing which crosseth their full passage.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Lucian.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Lucian.
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