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
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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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    !'••••. [ *3 ] may be healthy, by a Senfation in a great Degree analogous, oppofing the Irregu¬ larity of the Paffions, in common Ac¬ ceptation, the Reproof of Confcience V By Niillum Numen abeft, fi fit Prudentia : fed te Nos facimus Fortuna Deam, Coeloque locamus. Thus tranfiated by Dryden, with a fmall Alterati¬ on more confiftent with the Original : - Be thy Pray’rs confin’d To Health of Body, and Content’ of Mind : A Soul that can fecurely Death defy. And count it Nature’s Privilege to die. Serene and manly, harden’d to fuftain The Load of Life, and exercis’d in Pain Guiltlefs of Hate, and Proof again!!: Defire ; . That all Things weighs, and nothing can admire; That dares prefer the Toils of Hercules To Dalliance, Banquets, and ignoble Eafe. The Path to Peace is Virtue, what I fhow t r . 1 * Thyfelf may freely on thyfelf beflow. The Voice ofWifdom with Attention join, Each Deity will aid thy good Defign. Fortune was never worfhip’d by the Wife, But, fet aloft by Fools, uiurps the Skies. d Dr. Whytt, on vital and other involuntary Mo¬ tions, has a good Obfervation, p. 288.
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