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 vii
... duty into his feelings , would have been thought at best extremely unphilosophical . How different are the times in which we live ! Now the sentimental system extends its influence to every subject , and is become at once powerful and ...
... duty into his feelings , would have been thought at best extremely unphilosophical . How different are the times in which we live ! Now the sentimental system extends its influence to every subject , and is become at once powerful and ...
الصفحة viii
... duty . I am no more disposed to be an advocate for the dry moralist , who can talk of nothing but reason and fitness , and eternal and necessary relations , than for the man of sentiment , who mis- takes the suggestions of fancy , and ...
... duty . I am no more disposed to be an advocate for the dry moralist , who can talk of nothing but reason and fitness , and eternal and necessary relations , than for the man of sentiment , who mis- takes the suggestions of fancy , and ...
الصفحة xx
... duty , have narrowly con- fined this duty to the offices of social and civil life : an abuse which goes at once to shut all religion out of the world , and in its ultimate tendency to destroy even that virtue which is pretended ; for ...
... duty , have narrowly con- fined this duty to the offices of social and civil life : an abuse which goes at once to shut all religion out of the world , and in its ultimate tendency to destroy even that virtue which is pretended ; for ...
الصفحة xxii
... duty upon others , but became himself all things to all men , that by all means he might save some . In his speech no less than in his con- duct , to the Jews he became as a Jew , that he might gain the Jews , to them who were without ...
... duty upon others , but became himself all things to all men , that by all means he might save some . In his speech no less than in his con- duct , to the Jews he became as a Jew , that he might gain the Jews , to them who were without ...
الصفحة xxiv
... duty , by every fair and practicable method , to diffuse good ; and when it is rejected in one form , to try whether it may not find entertainment in another . What is here said may perhaps be thought enough to justify any liberty I ...
... duty , by every fair and practicable method , to diffuse good ; and when it is rejected in one form , to try whether it may not find entertainment in another . What is here said may perhaps be thought enough to justify any liberty I ...
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