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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 25 (p.70) |
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To Sir H. G. sir, I hope you are now welcome to London, and well, and well comforted in your Fathers health and love, and well conten- ted that we ask you how you doe, and tell you how we are, which yet I cannot of my self; If I knew that I were ill, I were well; for we consist of three parts, a Soul, and Bo- dy, and Minde: which I call those thoughts and affections and passions, which neither soul nor body hath alone, but have been be- gotten by their communication, as Mu- sique results out of our breath and a Cornet. And of all these the diseases are cures, if they be known. Of our souls sicknesses, which are sinnes, the knowledge is, to acknow- ledge, and that is her Physique, in which we are not dieted by drams and scruples, for we cannot take too much. Of our bo- dies infirmities, though our knowledge be partly ab extrinseco, from the opinion of the Physician, and that the subject and matter [CW: be] |
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