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
... influence to every subject , and is become at once powerful and universal . It has invaded our histories , and even our phi- losophy , and given an air of fiction to them both ; it has made its way into our poli- tics , insomuch that ...
... influence to every subject , and is become at once powerful and universal . It has invaded our histories , and even our phi- losophy , and given an air of fiction to them both ; it has made its way into our poli- tics , insomuch that ...
الصفحة x
... influence is to lose all power of return to rural simpli- city ; unless the mind is happily forti- fied against the seduction , by a philoso- phy which can supply both pleasure and employment without the aid of artificial life . 1 The ...
... influence is to lose all power of return to rural simpli- city ; unless the mind is happily forti- fied against the seduction , by a philoso- phy which can supply both pleasure and employment without the aid of artificial life . 1 The ...
الصفحة xxix
... favourable to Virtue , from its Ten- dency to weaken the Impression of the World 117..131 SECT . II . Containing some Observations on those Means which tend , by a more direct and positive Influence , to the Promotion of Virtue SECT 7.
... favourable to Virtue , from its Ten- dency to weaken the Impression of the World 117..131 SECT . II . Containing some Observations on those Means which tend , by a more direct and positive Influence , to the Promotion of Virtue SECT 7.
الصفحة xxx
... Influence , to the Promotion of Virtue SECT . III . - On some Evils particularly incident to a retired Life , and which are contrary , or at least unfavourable to Virtue : with a few Hints respecting their Remedies PAGE 132..207 ...
... Influence , to the Promotion of Virtue SECT . III . - On some Evils particularly incident to a retired Life , and which are contrary , or at least unfavourable to Virtue : with a few Hints respecting their Remedies PAGE 132..207 ...
الصفحة 2
... cogent and irresistible it appears , will , it may be feared , have little influence upon some who , though they would not expect to become profound metaphysicians , or learned in na- tural science , 2 [ PART 1 , On the Knowledge of God .
... cogent and irresistible it appears , will , it may be feared , have little influence upon some who , though they would not expect to become profound metaphysicians , or learned in na- tural science , 2 [ PART 1 , On the Knowledge of God .
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