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perpetuall Tranquillity of mind, while we live here; because
Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire,
[30] nor without Feare, no more than without Sense. What
kind of Felicity God hath ordained to them that devoutly
honour him, a man shall no sooner know, than enjoy; being
joyes, that now are as incomprehensible, as the word of
Schoole-men Beatificall Vision is unintelligible.

The forme of Speech whereby men signifie their opinion
of the Goodnesse of any thing, is PRAISE. That
whereby they signifie the power and greatnesse
of any thing, is MAGNIFYING. And that whereby
they signifie the opinion they have of a mans
Felicity, is by the Greeks called μακαρισμóς,
for which wee have no name in our tongue.
And thus much is sufficient for the present purpose, to have
been said of the PASSIONS.

Praise.

Magnifica-
tion.

μακαρισμóς


CHAP. VII.

Of the Ends, or Resolutions of DISCOURSE.

O F all Discourse, governed by desire of Knowledge, there
is at last an End, either by attaining, or by giving over.
And in the chain of Discourse, wheresoever it be interrupted,
there is an End for that time.

If the Discourse be meerly Mentall, it consisteth of thoughts
that the thing will be, and will not be[, or] that it has been, and
has not been, alternately. So that wheresoever you break off
the chayn of a mans Discourse, you leave him in a Præsump-
tion of it will be, or, it will not be; or it has been, or, has not
been. All which is Opinion. And that which is alternate
Appetite, in Deliberating concerning Good and Evil; the
same is alternate Opinion, in the Enquiry of the truth of
Past, and Future. And as the last Appetite in Deliberation,
is called the Will; so the last Opinion in search of the truth
of Past, and Future, is called the JUDGEMENT, or
Resolute and Finall Sentence of him that discourseth.
And as the whole chain of Appetites alternate, in

Judgement,
or Sentence
final.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Leviathan: Or, the Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill. Contributors: Thomas Hobbes - author, A. R. Waller - editor. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Place of Publication: Cambridge, England. Publication Year: 1904. Page Number: 38.
    
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