Volume 1

A medical dissertation concerning the effects of the passions on human bodies : first published in Latin, at Leyden, on the 31st of July, 1727 ... and now republished in English, with a preface, the aphorisms of Sanctorius to which it refers, and some notes illustrating the subject / By William Clark.

William Clark

Date:: 1752

Credit: A medical dissertation concerning the effects of the passions on human bodies : first published in Latin, at Leyden, on the 31st of July, 1727 ... and now republished in English, with a preface, the aphorisms of Sanctorius to which it refers, and some notes illustrating the subject / By William Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ *>] SECT. IV. • * ' •• IZ JL w' «I, 4 J IT muft be confefled, there are to be found many Objedts of Thought, which have no great Influence on the Will; but, as often as tbefe are compli¬ cated with fuch as have, the fame EfFedts are produced5: Moreover, when the Ideas of Hatred are of lefs Moment to deter- \ * r * • V • *- -<T » « mine the Will than thofe of Love, or, on the contrary, the Ideas of Love are of lefs Moment than thofe of Hatred, the Hefult will accordingly depend on the predominant Paffion; hence, trahit fua quemque Voluptas, every Man takes his particular Tafteof Pleafure and Pain, ac¬ cording to Temperament, Habit, andCon- *nr.ii.ii — ■—. ■ *■ .. ' ■■■■■■ ^ b Thus the Ideas of Poverty or Riches, abftra&Iy eonfidered, may be very indifferent, but if accompa¬ nied with a ftrong Defire of the one, or Abhorrence of the other, all the Means of acquiring the one, or avoiding the other, will neceflarily become com- with our Lcve, or Averfion. verfation^$

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