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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Hitherto of the more Passive Operation of the Understanding, which I called Reception or Knowledge of Objects. Now follow the more active; which consist more in the Action of Reason, than in its Apprehension▪ And they are the Actions of Invention, of Wit, and of Judgment. The former of these hath two principal parts; the Discovering of Truth; and the Communicating of it. The former only is properly Invention; the other a Consequent thereof, Tradition: but both much making to the honour of the Faculty. For the former, I shall forbear any large discourse touching the particular Dignities thereof, as being a thing so manifestly seen in Contemplations, Practises, dispatches in the maintaining of Societies, erecting of Laws, government of Life; and generally, whatsoever enterprise a man fastens upon, this one Faculty it is, that hath been the Mother of so many Arts; so great Beauty and ⟨p. 501⟩Ornament amongst men, which out of one world of things have raised another of Learning.
HItherto of the more Passive Operation of the Vnderstanding, which I called Reception or Knowledge of Objects. Now follow the more active; which consist more in the Action of Reason, than in its Apprehension▪ And they are the Actions of Invention, of Wit, and of Iudgment. The former of these hath two principall parts; the Discovering of Truth; and the Communicating of it. The former only is properly Invention; the other a Consequent thereof, Tradition: but both much making to the honour of the Faculty. For the former, I shall forbeare any large discourse touching the particular Dignities thereof, as being a thing so manifestly seen in Contemplations, Practises, dispatches in the maintaining of Societies, erecting of Lawes, government of Life; and generally, whatsoever enterprize a man fastens upon, this one Faculty it is, that hath been the Mother of so many Arts; so great Beauty and ⟨p. 501⟩Ornament amongst men, which out of one world of things have raised another of Learning.