A work for none but angels & men. That is to be able to look into, and to know our selves. Or a book shewing what the soule is, subsisting and having its operations without the body; its more th[e]n a perfection or reflection of the sense, or teperature of humours: how she exercises her powers of vegetative or quickening power of the senses. Of the imaginations or common sense, the phantasie, sensative memory, passions motion of life, local motion, and intellectual powers of the soul. Of the wit, understanding, reason, opinion, judgement, power of will, and the relations betwixt wit & wil. Of the intellectual memory, that the soule is immortall, and cannot dye, cannot be destroyed, her cause ceaseth not, violence nor time cannot destroy her; and all objections answered to the contrary.

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  • A work for none but angels & men. That is to be able to look into, and to know our selves. Or a book shewing what the soule is, subsisting and having its operations without the body; its more th[e]n a perfection or reflection of the sense, or teperature of humours: how she exercises her powers of vegetative or quickening power of the senses. Of the imaginations or common sense, the phantasie, sensative memory, passions motion of life, local motion, and intellectual powers of the soul. Of the wit, understanding, reason, opinion, judgement, power of will, and the relations betwixt wit & wil. Of the intellectual memory, that the soule is immortall, and cannot dye, cannot be destroyed, her cause ceaseth not, violence nor time cannot destroy her; and all objections answered to the contrary.
  • Nosce teipsum. Selections
  • Nosce teipsum. Selections
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Imprint
London: printed by M.S. for Tho: Jenner, at the South-Entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1653.
Publication year
1653-1653
ESTC No.
R207134
Grub Street ID
83556
Description
[2], 54 (i.e. 48) p. : ill. ; 4⁰
Note
In verse.

Signatures D1-D3 blank.

Originally published in 1599 as "Of the soule of man, and the immortalitie thereof", the main constituent of: Davies, Sir John. Nosce teipsum.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "July: 30".