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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... common as devoted to the in- struction and happiness of mankind * , must have very slender pretensions to the cha- racter either of a philosopher or a moralist ; and , when most favourably estimated , can only rank as a grave ...
... common as devoted to the in- struction and happiness of mankind * , must have very slender pretensions to the cha- racter either of a philosopher or a moralist ; and , when most favourably estimated , can only rank as a grave ...
الصفحة xiv
... common sense : but he must not expect that deference to long custom and inve- terate prejudice , which is due exclusively to reason and truth . I do not know that I have been deficient in any proper respect to the classics , by which I ...
... common sense : but he must not expect that deference to long custom and inve- terate prejudice , which is due exclusively to reason and truth . I do not know that I have been deficient in any proper respect to the classics , by which I ...
الصفحة xxx
... COMMON OBJECTION AGAINST A LIFE OF RETIREMENT , NAMELY , THAT IT DESTROYS OR DI- MINISHES USEFULNESS , DERED . IS PARTICULARLY SECT . I. Containing some Remarks on the Uti- lity arifing from Public Station .. CONSI- 305..323 SECT . II ...
... COMMON OBJECTION AGAINST A LIFE OF RETIREMENT , NAMELY , THAT IT DESTROYS OR DI- MINISHES USEFULNESS , DERED . IS PARTICULARLY SECT . I. Containing some Remarks on the Uti- lity arifing from Public Station .. CONSI- 305..323 SECT . II ...
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... common opinion , that the gods were never angry , nor did harm to any one * : whence we may at least collect that the doctrine of punitive justice , or of that unalterable dis- plicency and resentment of sin , which is re- presented to ...
... common opinion , that the gods were never angry , nor did harm to any one * : whence we may at least collect that the doctrine of punitive justice , or of that unalterable dis- plicency and resentment of sin , which is re- presented to ...
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... common pa- rent ; with him likewise they suffer The penalty of Adam , the season's difference , As the icy fang , and churlish chiding of the winter's wind : with other rigours and incommodities that flow from the same source . Thus ...
... common pa- rent ; with him likewise they suffer The penalty of Adam , the season's difference , As the icy fang , and churlish chiding of the winter's wind : with other rigours and incommodities that flow from the same source . Thus ...
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