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Febrifugium. An essay for the cure of ungoverned anger: in a sermon preached, at…
Febrifugium. An essay for the cure of ungoverned anger: in a sermon preached, at the proposal and on the occasion, of a man under a sentence of death, for a murder committed by him in his anger. At Boston, 23. d. III. m. 1717. : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by J. Allen for Benjamin Gray, 1717
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Again; An Angry Man will do well to Consider this; What are they that have incurred, my Anger; and what was it they intended, when they did it? Upon the Quality of them, with whom we are Angry, methinks the Reflections of Seneca, have something in them, Is it a Good Man that has Injured thee? Don't readily believe it. Is it a Bad Man? Don't at all Wonder at it. For to strive with thy Equals; This is Doubtful: with thy Superiors; it will be madness; with thy Inferiors; it will be Sordid. He that has Angered thee, is either a Stronger than thou, or a Weaker; If a Stronger, spare thy self; If a Weaker spare him. O Celebrated Stoic, Thou arguest incomparably. And thus we may carry on the ⟨p. 27⟩Argument. The Person against whom your Anger is Enkindled; either he had no Design to Anger you; and then you wrong him in being Angry at him; or else he had a Design to Anger you; and then 'tis a silly Thing in you to gratify him so far as to be Angry at him.
Again; An Angry Man will do well to Consider this; What are they that have incurred, my Anger; and what was it they intended, when they did it? Upon the Quality of them, with whom we are Angry, methinks the Reflections of Seneca, have something in them, Is it a Good Man that has Injured thee? Don't readily believe it. Is it a Bad Man? Don't at all Wonder at it. For to strive with thy Equals; This is Doubtful: with thy Superiors; it will be madness; with thy Inferiors; it will be Sordid. He that has Anger'd thee, is either a Stronger than thou, or a Weaker; If a Stronger, spare thy self; If a Weaker spare him. O Celebrated Stoick, Thou arguest incomparably. And thus we may carry on the ⟨p. 27⟩Argument. The Person against whom your Anger is Enkindled; either he had no Design to Anger you; and then you wrong him in being Angry at him; or else he had a Design to Anger you; and then 'tis a silly Thing in you to gratify him so far as to be Angry at him.
There is a weight in such Considerations. But after all, Very Notable was the Complaint of the most Learned Roman; That the Precepts of their Philosophy were very Fine Things; and yet whatever the matter were, he knew not; when they came to be Practised, they still failed of procuring what they pretended for.