The passions of the minde in generall. Corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented. By Thomas Wright. With a treatise thereto adioyning of the clymatericall yeare, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth

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The passions of the minde in generall. Corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented. By Thomas Wright. With a treatise thereto adioyning of the clymatericall yeare, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth

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Wright, Thomas, d. 1624.

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London :: Printed by Valentine Simmes [and Adam Islip] for Walter Burre [and Thomas Thorpe] and are to be sold [by Walter Burre] in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Crane,

Anno. 1604.

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Elizabeth -- I, -- Queen of England, 1533-1603.

Emotions -- Early works to 1850.

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Contents

• title page
• TO The right Honorable my very good Lord the Earle of Southampton.
• THE PREFACE vnto the Reader.
• To the ternall, and aeternall Vnitie.
• To the Author.
• The first Booke of the PASSIONS of the MINDE: wherein is declared, the essence of Passions.
  • The end and profite of this Discourse, wherein are declared the Passions and Affections of our Soules. CHAP. I.
  • What we vnderstand by Passions and Affections. CHAP. II.
  • Of Selfe-love , or Amor proprius. CHAP. III.
  • How the Passions may be well directed and made profitable. CHAP. III.
  • An explication of the division of our sensitive appetite into Concupiscibile and Irascibile, that is, Coveting and Invading. CHAP. V.
  • The division and number of Passions of the Minde. CHAP. VI.
  • The seate, place, and subiect of the Passions of the Minde. CHAP. VII.
  • That there are Passions in the reasonable soule. CHAP. VIII.
  • That the heart isc the peuliar place where that Passions allodge. CHAP. IX.
  • What sort of persons be most passionate. CHAP. X.
  • The manner how Passions are mooved. CHAP. XI.
• The second Booke wherein are declared foure effects of inordinate Passions. ∴
  • Passions blinde the Iudgement. CHAP. 1.
  • How Passions seduce the Will. CHAP. II.
  • How Passions alter the Body. CHAP. III.
  • The fourth effect of Passions, which is, disquietnesse of the Minde. CHAP. IIII.
    • Contradiction. § I.
    • Contrarietie of Passions. §. II.
    • Insatiabilitie of Passions. §. III.
    • Importunitie of Passions. § IIII.
    • Impossibilitie of Passions. § V.
• The third Booke of the Passions of the Minde: where∣in are delivered the meanes to know, and mortifie Passions, what prudence and Policie may be practised in them.
  • Meanes for euery man to know his owne Passions. CHAP. I.
  • Meanes to mortifie Passions. CHAP. II.
  • Prudence to be vsed in Passions. CHAP. III.
  • Pollicie in Passion. CHAP. IIII.
• THE FOVRTH BOOKE, Wherein is explaned, how Passi∣ons may be discouered.
  • CHAP. I.
    • Much talke.
    • Taciturnitie.
    • Slownesse in speech.
    • Rashnesse in speech.
    • Affectation in speech.
    • Scoffing speeches.
    • Discouerie of passions in the mat∣ter of talke.
    • Disputation aboue the speakers capacitie.
    • Spirit of Contradiction.
    • Speciall matters.
    • Concealing and reuealing of secrets.
    • Fained secrets.
    • Sowers of dissention.
  • The discouery of passions by exter∣nall actions. CHAP. II.
    • I. Discouery of Passions in play.
    • II. Discouery of Passions in feasting.
    • III. Discouery of Passions in drinking.
    • IIII. Discouery of Passions in gesture.
      • In Voice.
      • Managing of the hands and bodie.
    • V. Discouerie of passion in Praysing.
    • VI. Discouerie of Passions in Apparrell.
    • VII. Discouerie of passion in Conuersation.
    • VIII. Discouerie of Passions in Writing.
  • Order or conference of Passions. CHAP. III.
    • Order of Passions in generation or production.
    • Order of Passions in Intention.
    • Order of Passions in Dignitie.
• THE FIFT BOOKE of the Passions of the Minde: Wherein are deliuered the means to mooue Passions.
  • How sences mooue Passions, and specially our sight §. 1.
  • How Passions are mooued with musicke and instrumeuts. §. 2.
  • How Passions are moued by action. §. 2.
  • How to moue Passions by reason. §. 4.
    • Quid sit.
    • Qualis sit.
    • Propter quid.
    • Motiues to Loue.
    • The sixt motiue to Loue is Pleasure.
    • The seuenth Motiue to Loue, which is Profit.
    • The 8. Motive to Loue, which is Honestie.
    • The 9. Motive to Love, is Love it selfe.
    • The 10. Motive to Love, which is Resemblance.
    • The 11. Motive to Love, which is agreeablenesse with Nature.
    • The 12. Motive to Love is Necessitie.
    • The 13. Motive to Love, which is the pardoning of Iniuries.
    • The 14. Motive to Love, which is Hatred.
    • The 15. and 16. Motives to Love, which are delivery from evill, and toleration of wrongs for vs.
    • The 17. Motive to Love, which consisteth specially in the manner of giving giftes, and bestowing favours.
    • The first Circumstance. The greatnesse of the Giver.
    • 2. Circumstance. Strangenesse in the Giver.
    • 3. Circumstance. If the giver be our speciall friend.
    • 4. Circumstance. If the gift be exceeding deare vnto the giver.
    • 5. Circumstance. The greatnesse of the Gift in it selfe.
    • 6. Circumstance. If the gift tended to our great good or riddance from some great evill.
    • 7. Circumstance. If it be given with alacritie.
    • 8. Circumstance. If it were given by our enemies.
    • 9. Circumstance. If it were granted without suite or request, of the Givers owne accord.
    • 10. Circumstance. If the Person by giving was endangered or endammaged.
    • 4. Circumstances more.
    • Certaine Corollaries deducted out of the precedent Discourse of the Motives to Love.
    • Meanes or Motives to moove Hatred, Detestation, Feare, and Ire.
    • Particular Motives to Hatred of Enmitie.
      • His Ingresse. § 1.
      • His Progresse. § 2.
      • Egresse. § 3.
      • Hatred of a communitie. § 4.
      • Hatred of Abomination. § 5.
      • Meanes to move flight and feare. § 6.
      • Meanes to move Ire. § 7.
      • The Iniurer. § 8.
      • The iniurie in it selfe. § 9.
      • The Iniuried. § 10.
      • The manner of Iniurying. § 12.
      • Meanes to moove Hope. § 13.
      • Meanes to move ioy and delight. § 16.
• The sixt Booke, en∣treating of the defects or im∣perfections of mens soules.
  • 1. Naturall ignorance.
  • II. Errours of the last end.
  • III. Errours in the meanes.
  • IIII. Difficultie in Vnderstanding.
  • V. Ignorance and Errours about God.
  • VI. Ignorance and Errours about our Soules and bodies.
  • VII. Ignorance and Errours in knowing base Creatures.
  • VIII. Curiositie in knowing things not necessarie.
  • IX. Of vaine discoursing.
  • X. Of Distractions.
    • The Defects and Imperfections of our Willes.
    • Difficultie to do well.
    • The Impediments to Vertue.
      • The first Impediment is, the Sugge∣stions of the Divell.
      • The second Impediment is, ill Education.
      • The third Impediment is, wicked Conversation.
      • The fourth Impediment is, corrup∣ted Bookes.
      • The fift Impediment is, of Passions.
      • The sixt Impediment is, of Inconstancie.
      • The seventh Impediment is, discontentment of our owne Estate.
      • The eight Impediment is, That pleasures are present, which the flesh and world yeeld: The ioyes of heaven absent and future.
      • The ninth Impediment is, Negligence in serving God, or seeking meanes how to come to our end.
• title page
• A Succinct Philo∣sophicall declaration of the nature of Clymactericall yeeres, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth.∵