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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... enquiries , more true satisfaction would thence result to the writer , than if he had furnished out a volume of mere curiosity or amusement to the public at large . To the first part it was intended to have subjoined a section on human ...
... enquiries , more true satisfaction would thence result to the writer , than if he had furnished out a volume of mere curiosity or amusement to the public at large . To the first part it was intended to have subjoined a section on human ...
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... enquiries , seemed the more to elude them * , is a pre- sumption equally contrary to reason and experience , and deserves to be branded as the grossest enthusiasm . The first step to true wisdom is to feel the want of it , and the next ...
... enquiries , seemed the more to elude them * , is a pre- sumption equally contrary to reason and experience , and deserves to be branded as the grossest enthusiasm . The first step to true wisdom is to feel the want of it , and the next ...
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... enquiries which may help to diminish the evils or increase the comforts of life , is a rational because a useful employment . In such labour , there is profit : but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury * . Under this impression ...
... enquiries which may help to diminish the evils or increase the comforts of life , is a rational because a useful employment . In such labour , there is profit : but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury * . Under this impression ...
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... enquiries and its expectations : for " man , being the mini- " ster and interpreter of nature , acts and " understands so far as he has observed " of the order , the works , and mind of " nature ; and can proceed no farther for ૮ ...
... enquiries and its expectations : for " man , being the mini- " ster and interpreter of nature , acts and " understands so far as he has observed " of the order , the works , and mind of " nature ; and can proceed no farther for ૮ ...
الصفحة 269
... enquiries after the perfection of our original state . As poetry , however , is one of the most powerful instruments of our pleasure , we ought cautiously to examine , whether the pleasure it affords be at least innocent . Whenever we ...
... enquiries after the perfection of our original state . As poetry , however , is one of the most powerful instruments of our pleasure , we ought cautiously to examine , whether the pleasure it affords be at least innocent . Whenever we ...
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