A philosophicall discourse, entituled, The anatomie of the minde. Nevvlie made and set forth by T.R.
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A philosophicall discourse, entituled, The anatomie of the minde. Nevvlie made and set forth by T.R.
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Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.
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Imprinted at London :: By I[ohn] C[harlewood] for Andrew Maunsell, dvvelling in Paules Church yarde, at the signe of the Parret,
1576.
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Ethics.
Conduct of life -- Early works to 1900.
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¶Of Freating. Chap. 29.
* 1.1THe fift parte of Sorrowe, is called Freating, whiche according to the minde of Cicero, and Zeno, is a Sorrow of the minde, mightily bringing downe a man, and altering his constitucion. Which agreeth very well to the deriua∣tion of the worde. For in Latin it is cal∣led Angor, which is borrowed from the Greekes,* 1.2 for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Gréeke it is to hange or strangle, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, a substan∣tiue thereof, is named a choaking or strangling. Hereof it is apparent, that
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this Freating doeth not onely vnquiet the minde, but also bring the bodie much out of temper. Naye, we reade that by this Perturbation, many haue lost their lyues, and soddainly geuen vp the ghost. As P. Rutilius,* 1.3 which when he heard that his brother presuming to obtain the dignitie of a consull in Rome, had taken the repulse for verie anguishe of minde, with freating left this worlde, and died. Another which was a sophiste, and pro∣fessed the arte of Logike, being one of great fame,* 1.4 and in that facultie had no péere in those dayes, entring disputation with Stilpo, one of great fame for his profound knowledge, and being driuen by the same Stilpo to a Dum blanke, or Non plus, in an easie question, tooke the same so greeuously at the harte, as pre∣sently that great and vnreasonable frée∣ting, dispoyled him not onely of wyt and reason, but of all sense and fealing. But these fewe wordes maye so suffici∣ently declare this affection Freatinge, to bée altogeather vnméete for a reaso∣nable creature.