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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 Virtues of Speech (whereby it worketh with such force upon the Mind) are many, which therefore I will but name, some Grammatical, as Property, and Fitness, and Congruity, without1 Solecisms and Barbarousness, some Rhetorical, as choice, Purity, Brevity, Perspicuity, Gravity, Pleasantness, Vigour, Moderate Acrimony and Vehemency; some Logical, as Method, Order, Distribution, Demonstration, Invention, Definition, Argumentation, Refutation. A right digesting of all the Aides of Speech; as Wit, Learning, Proverbs, Apologues, Emblems, Histories, Laws, Causes, and Effects, and all the Heads or Places which assist us in Invention. Some Moral, as Gravity, Truth, Seriousness, Integrity, Authority; When words receive weight from manners, and a mans Speech is better believed for his Life than for his Learning. When it appears, That they arise esulce pectoris, and have their foundation2 in Virtue, and not in Fancy. For as a man receiveth the self same Wine with pleasure in a pure and clean Vessel, which he loathes to put unto his mouth, from one that is soul and soiled: so the self same Speech adorned with the Piety of one man, and disgraced with the Pravity of another, will be very apt accordingly to be received, either with delight or loathing.
The Vertues of Speech (whereby it worketh with such force upon the Minde) are many, which therefore I will but name, some Grammaticall, as Property, and Fitnesse, and Congruity, without1 Solaecismes and Barbarousnesse, some Rhetoricall, as choice, Purity, Brevity, Perspecuity, Gravity, Pleasantnesse, Vigo•, Moderate Acrimony and Vehemency; some Logicall, as Method, Order, Distribution, Demonstration, Invention, Definition, Argumentation, Refutation. A right digesting of all the Aydes of Speech; as Wit, Learning, Poverbs, Apologues, Emblemes, Histories, Lawes, Causes, and Effects, and all the Heads or Places which assist us in Invention. Some Morall, as Gravity, Truth, Seriousnesse, Integrity, Authority; When words receive weight from manners, and a mans Speech is better beleeved for his Life than for his Learning. When it appeares, That they arise esulce pectoris, and have their foundation2