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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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The force & power of Speech upon the minds of men, is almost beyond its power to express, How suddenly it can inflame, excite, allay, comfort, mollify, transport, and carry captive the Affections of men. Caesar with one word quiets the Commotion of an Army. Menenius Agrippa with one Apologue, the sedition of a people. Flavianus the Bishop of Antioch with one Oration; the fury of an Emperor. Anaximenes with one Artifice, the indignation of Alexander; Abigail with one Supplication, the Revenge of David; Pericles and Pisistratus even then when they spake against the peoples liberty, over ruled them by their Eloquence, to believe and embrace what they spake, and by their Tongue effected that willingly, which their Sword could hardly have extorted. Pericles and Nicias are said to have still pursued the same Ends, and yet with clean different success. The one in advancing the same business pleased; the other exasperated the people; and that upon no other Reason but this, the one had the Art of Persuasion which the other wanted.
The force & power of Speech upon the minds of men, is almost beyond its power to expresse, How suddenly it can inflame, excite, allay, comfort, mollify, transport, and carry captive the Affections of men. Caesar with one word quiets the Commotion of an Army. Menenius Agrippa with one Apologue, the sedition of a people. Flavianus the Bishop of Antioch with one Oration; the fury of an Emperour. Anaximenes with one Artifice, the indignation of Alexander; Abigail with one Supplication, the Revenge of David; Pericles and Pisistratus even then when they spake against the peoples liberty, over ruled them by their Eloquence, to beleeve and imbrace what they spake, and by their Tongue effected that willingly, which their Sword could hardly have extorted. Pericles and Nicias are said to have still pursued the same Ends, and yet with cleane different successe. The one in advancing the same busines pleased; the other exasperated the people; and that upon no other Reason but this, the one had the Art of Perswasion which the other wanted.
[Greek or Hebrew] One spake the Right with a slow Tongue, Another fluently spake wrong. He lost, this stole the Cause, and got To make you think, what you think not.