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 ix
... improve a life of retirement , is , I think , a point too ob- vious to be contested . Whence is it else that the country is almost deserted ; that the ancient mansions of our nobility , and gentry , notwithstanding all the attractions ...
... improve a life of retirement , is , I think , a point too ob- vious to be contested . Whence is it else that the country is almost deserted ; that the ancient mansions of our nobility , and gentry , notwithstanding all the attractions ...
الصفحة xxiii
... improve the language of moralists and philosophers to the sup- port of scripture doctrines and practices , or , in other words , of religion and virtue , of order and social happiness . In the last place , I would observe , in general ...
... improve the language of moralists and philosophers to the sup- port of scripture doctrines and practices , or , in other words , of religion and virtue , of order and social happiness . In the last place , I would observe , in general ...
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... improvement , than the Studies of Nature ; " and can we less wonder when he proceeds to demand with an air of confidence , " What work of science displays a more sublime theo- logy , inculcates a purer morality , or breathes a more ...
... improvement , than the Studies of Nature ; " and can we less wonder when he proceeds to demand with an air of confidence , " What work of science displays a more sublime theo- logy , inculcates a purer morality , or breathes a more ...
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... improvement of our virtue , and , in consequence , the advancement of qur happiness ; yet is it not a strange trial , for an innocent.creature to be introduced into being with weeping and anguish , to sicken a few years , and before he ...
... improvement of our virtue , and , in consequence , the advancement of qur happiness ; yet is it not a strange trial , for an innocent.creature to be introduced into being with weeping and anguish , to sicken a few years , and before he ...
الصفحة 30
... improve every means of information afforded him , will not finally be left to perish for want of knowledge . If any one lack wisdom , says the apostle , let him ask of God , who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not * . This ...
... improve every means of information afforded him , will not finally be left to perish for want of knowledge . If any one lack wisdom , says the apostle , let him ask of God , who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not * . This ...
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