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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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3 And next it must be a whole judgement: and that in both the former. It must judge fully of the nature and circumstances of the injury, which ever receives it degrees of Intention or remission, not from the matter of the Act, but from some particular Qualifications and Circumstances joined thereunto.
3 And next it must be a whole judgement: and that in both the former. It must judge fully of the nature and circumstances of the injury, which ever receives it degrees of Intention or remission, not from the matter of the Act, but from some particular Qualifications and Circumstances joyned thereunto.
Secondly, it must judge fully of the Act of Passion, not only in Informing, quod sit, that Reparation of our selves is lawful; but […] too, in the manner and form how to undertake it. Because as Passion, being without Reason in1 it self, wants the tongue of judgement to inform it what to do; So, being blind, it wants the hand of judgement to lead it in the doing of it: and ⟨p. 316⟩this I take to be the proper way of governing this Passion. But that which was once prescribed by Athenodorus the Philosopher, unto Augustus to repeat2 over the Alphabet between the Passion and the Revenge, is too boyish and slight, as diverting the mind from the occasion to some other trifle, which is only to cozen and not to conquer ou• distemper; and therefore though it may for a time allay it, yet this is but as the cures of Empirics, which give present ease, but search not into the root, nor leave such •n habit within, as shall in after occasions limit the unruliness of such distempers, like those odours which use to raise men out of a fit of the falling sickness, but do not all cure them of the disease.