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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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6 Give not an easy Ear to Reports▪ nor1 an Easy entertainment to suspicio•s, be not greedy to know who or wherein another hath wronged thee. That which we are desirous to know, or apt to believe, we shall be the more ready to revenge. Curiosity and •dulity, 2are the Handmaids unto Passion. Alexander would not see the woman after whom he might have Lusted▪ Nor Caesar search Pompeys Cabinet, l•st he should find new matters of Revenge. He chose rather to make a Fire of them on his Hearth, then in his Heart. Injuries ⟨p. 322⟩unknown do many times the less hurt; when I have found them, I then begin to feel them, and suffer more from mine own discovery then from mine enemies attempt.
6 Give not an easie Eare to Reports▪ nor1 an Easie entertainement to suspicio•s, bee not greedy to know who or wherein another hath wrong'd thee. That which wee are desirous to know, or apt to beleeve, wee shall be the more ready to revenge. Curiosity and •dulity, 2are the Handmaides unto Passion. Alexander would not see the woman after •hom he might have Lusted▪ Nor Casar search Pompeyes Cabinet, l•st he should find new matters of Revenge. He chose rather to make a Fire of them on his Hearth, then in his Heart. Inju•ies ⟨p. 322⟩