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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... contemplation of nature , I would here further refer the reader to the descriptions of the golden age , and of those that followed , which we find in many antient poets ; among the reft , in Hefiod , in Virgil , and in Ovid ; by all of ...
... contemplation of nature , I would here further refer the reader to the descriptions of the golden age , and of those that followed , which we find in many antient poets ; among the reft , in Hefiod , in Virgil , and in Ovid ; by all of ...
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... contemplate the Deity in those mirrors which he him- self has formed and authorized . We may thus view him in the works of nature ; for , as we are taught in a passage before cited , The invisible things of him from the creation of the ...
... contemplate the Deity in those mirrors which he him- self has formed and authorized . We may thus view him in the works of nature ; for , as we are taught in a passage before cited , The invisible things of him from the creation of the ...
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... contemplate his present degraded condition without much self - dissatisfaction and an awakening apprehension of dan- ger ; and under this impression he will be forward to lend his most serious attention , while we proceed , in the ...
... contemplate his present degraded condition without much self - dissatisfaction and an awakening apprehension of dan- ger ; and under this impression he will be forward to lend his most serious attention , while we proceed , in the ...
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... - ties , or that his virtues will acquit them- selves as successfully under trials when they are present and actual , as while they were yet distant , and existed only in contemplation 82 On the Knowledge of Ourselves . [ PART 1 .
... - ties , or that his virtues will acquit them- selves as successfully under trials when they are present and actual , as while they were yet distant , and existed only in contemplation 82 On the Knowledge of Ourselves . [ PART 1 .
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... contemplation . The speculative hero may prove a coward in the hour of danger ; and the sage philosopher , who can dis- course in the most profound manner of human life in the shade , may fail egre- giously in the discharge of its ...
... contemplation . The speculative hero may prove a coward in the hour of danger ; and the sage philosopher , who can dis- course in the most profound manner of human life in the shade , may fail egre- giously in the discharge of its ...
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