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THE Nature of these Passions comes next to be consider'd; and my Design in it is,* 1.1 to expose the Folly, the Vanity, the Misery, the Unreason∣ableness and Injustice, the Horrour and Defor∣mity that is in them; that so Men may be taught to know them as they are, and to hate them as they deserve. The Advices proper for preserving our selves from the ill Effects of them, will be deliver'd at large in the following Books. For the two Parts of a Physicians Business, you know, are first to shew the Disease, and then to apply sit Remedies. My present Care then shall be, to tell Men what they all, and where their Distem∣per lies; and for the Prescriptions they must wait a little longer.
Now of the several Passions here to be de∣scrib'd, those shall first be spoken to, which have a respect to the Appearance of Good, such are Love, and the several sorts of it; Desire, Hope, De∣spair, Joy, and the like. And after these we will enter upon those that are excited in us by the Apprehension of Evil, which indeed are very nu∣merous, as Anger, Hatred, Envy, Jealousie, Revenge, Cruelty, Fear, Grief, and Compassion.