The passions of the soule in three books the first, treating of the passions in generall, and occasionally of the whole nature of man. The second, of the number, and order of the passions, and the explication of the six primitive ones. The third, of particular passions. By R. des Cartes. And translated out of French into English.
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The passions of the soule in three books the first, treating of the passions in generall, and occasionally of the whole nature of man. The second, of the number, and order of the passions, and the explication of the six primitive ones. The third, of particular passions. By R. des Cartes. And translated out of French into English.
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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1650.
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Human behavior -- Miscellanea -- Early works to 1800.
Emotions -- Early works to 1800.
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"The passions of the soule in three books the first, treating of the passions in generall, and occasionally of the whole nature of man. The second, of the number, and order of the passions, and the explication of the six primitive ones. The third, of particular passions. By R. des Cartes. And translated out of French into English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A81352.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 24, 2025.
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The 28th Article. An explication of the first part of the definition.
THey may be called Apprehensions, when this word is used in a generall sense to signifie all thoughts that are not Actions of the Soul, or the wills: but not then when it onely signifies evident knowledges. For experience shewes us that those who are most agitated by their Pas∣sions, are not such as understand them best, and that they are in the Catalogue of those appre∣hensions which the strict alliance between the
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soul and the body renders confused and obscure; they may also be called resentments, because they are received into the soul in the same manner, as the objects of the exteriour senses, and are not otherwise understood by her; but they may justlier be stiled the emotions of the Soul, not only because this name may be attributed to all the mutations befalling her, (that is all the va∣rious thoughts thereof) but particularly, because, of all kinds of thoughts that she can have there are none that agitate, and shake it so hard as these Passions doe.
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