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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
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And for the later Branch, Aristotle hath placed ⟨p. 37⟩his greatest felicity in the contemplation of the highest and divinest Truths; which he makes to be the object of that supreme part of the Soul. And it was the speech of the Philosopher Heraclitus to the same purpose, that Animae sicca est 1sapientissima, (which toucheth something upon that of Aristotle, That Melancholy complexions are usually the wisest, for that Temper is the dryest of all the rest) That a Mind not steeped in the humours of carnal and gross affections, nor drenched in the waves of a disquiet Fancy, but more raised and soaring to its originally, by divine contemplations, is always endued with the greater wisdom.
And for the later Branch, Aristotle hath placed ⟨p. 37⟩his greatest felicitie in the contemplation of the highest and divinest Truths; which he makes to be the object of that supreme part of the Soule. And it was the speech of the Philosopher Heracl•tus to the same purpose, that Animae sicca est 1sapientissima, (which toucheth something upon that of Aristotle, That Melancholy complexions are usually the wisest, for that Temper is the dryest of all the rest) That a Mind not steeped in the humours of carnall and grosse affections, nor drench'd in the waves of a disquiet Fancie, but more raysed and soaring to its originally, by divine contemplations, is alwayes endued with the greater wisdome.
- 1Plutarch, de o•, a•llu, & de Esu ca• nium, Orat. 1. Ar•. Problem. §. 30. qu. 1.