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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Title: 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.
Author: Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Publication: London :: Printed for A.C. and are to be sold by J. Martin, and J. Ridley, at the Castle in Fleetstreet neer Ram-Alley,; 1650.
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Subject terms: Human behavior -- Miscellanea -- Early works to 1800.; Emotions -- Early works to 1800.
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The 95th Article. How they may also be excited by goods, ande∣vils which the Soul observes not, though they belong to her, as the delight a man takes to run into a danger. or remember an evil past.

SO the delight which oft-times young men take to undertake difficult things, and ex∣pose themselves to great perills, though they do not so much as look for any profit or honour thereby, comes from hence; the conceit they have that they undertake a difficult thing makes an impression in the brain, which being joyned to that which they may make, if they thought it a good thing to be couragious, fortunate, active or strong enough to dare to hazzard so farre, is the reason that they take delight in it, and the content which old men take, when they remem∣ber the miseries they suffered, proceeds from hence: they imagine to themselves it is a good thing that they could subsist in spight of them.