Rural Philosophy: Or, Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness : Chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the CountryA. Strahan, 1804 - 383 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة v
... summary view of this work ; but , on a nearer inspection , it appeared so little capable of a logical analysis , or reducible to any certain principles , that , except in a single instance , waving the critique in- tended , I rather ...
... summary view of this work ; but , on a nearer inspection , it appeared so little capable of a logical analysis , or reducible to any certain principles , that , except in a single instance , waving the critique in- tended , I rather ...
الصفحة xxvii
... speculation ; but this , as years advanced , he has found less attrac- tive , and has gradually been led to view things not so much in their abstract na- ture , as in their moral and practical ten- dencies PREFACE . xxvii.
... speculation ; but this , as years advanced , he has found less attrac- tive , and has gradually been led to view things not so much in their abstract na- ture , as in their moral and practical ten- dencies PREFACE . xxvii.
الصفحة 43
... dissect nature , but not abstract her , as they are obliged to do who will not dissect her . " BACON , vol , iii . p . 587. Shaw's edit . our moral situation ; and to do this , we SECT . II . ] On the Knowledge of Ourselves . 43.
... dissect nature , but not abstract her , as they are obliged to do who will not dissect her . " BACON , vol , iii . p . 587. Shaw's edit . our moral situation ; and to do this , we SECT . II . ] On the Knowledge of Ourselves . 43.
الصفحة 167
... . 3 . After the catechumen has repeated a comprehensive summary of his duty , in thought , word , and action , to- wiser heathens , to whom perhaps he is more disposed M 4 SECT . II . ] The positive Means ofVirtue considered . 167.
... . 3 . After the catechumen has repeated a comprehensive summary of his duty , in thought , word , and action , to- wiser heathens , to whom perhaps he is more disposed M 4 SECT . II . ] The positive Means ofVirtue considered . 167.
الصفحة 278
... abstract quantity , as these can only be considered as instru- mental to the knowledge of nature . Secondly , the same may be argued from the superior importance of moral science , That subject which involves our greatest interests ...
... abstract quantity , as these can only be considered as instru- mental to the knowledge of nature . Secondly , the same may be argued from the superior importance of moral science , That subject which involves our greatest interests ...
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