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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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Which makes sometimes a Wise man break Into Distempers wild and weak.
Which makes sometimes a Wise man breake Into Distempers wilde and weake.
In which ill office there is not any Passion more busy and fruitful then this of Anger by reason of it's suddenness, and of it's violence: both which are strong means to smother or ⟨p. 318⟩divert Reason, as we see in Tiberius himself, who though a man of a close and sad judgement, and of most reserved Passions (insomuch as he lived in them and nourished them a long time before either their working or discovery) yet when he was provoked by Agrippina, to a more violent Anger then usual, his Passion we see for the time altered his nature. Et veram occulti pectoris voc•m elicuit, Num ide• l•deretur, quia non regnaret. He brake forth into words, strange and unusual from so close a disposition; to wit, Whether she were wronged because she did not reign? which is Tacitus his observation upon the Anger of that man.
In which ill office there is not any Passion more busie and fruitfull then this of Anger by reason of it's suddennesse, and of it's violence: both which are strong meanes to smother or ⟨p. 318⟩