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 xxvi
... metaphysical disqui- sition , and confined myself to that view of the subject which to us is most important . To know what God is in himself , or in his own absolute being and perfections , is be- yond all human or angelic understanding ...
... metaphysical disqui- sition , and confined myself to that view of the subject which to us is most important . To know what God is in himself , or in his own absolute being and perfections , is be- yond all human or angelic understanding ...
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... metaphysics ; and perhaps it is fairly ques- tionable , whether any modern metaphy- sician has , upon the whole , given a more probable account , either of the origin of our ideas , or of our mode of perception , of judging , or of ...
... metaphysics ; and perhaps it is fairly ques- tionable , whether any modern metaphy- sician has , upon the whole , given a more probable account , either of the origin of our ideas , or of our mode of perception , of judging , or of ...
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... metaphysical skill of these great men united , he may pass his days to no practical purpose , and at last die in a fatal self - ignorance . To know ourselves , therefore , in the important sense of the precept , is to know * « He who ...
... metaphysical skill of these great men united , he may pass his days to no practical purpose , and at last die in a fatal self - ignorance . To know ourselves , therefore , in the important sense of the precept , is to know * « He who ...
الصفحة 274
... metaphysical ; and , under these several heads , shall briefly enquire , what new sources of pleasure it may supply to the contemplative recluse . 1. Natural Philosophy . The only solid basis on which this science can be erected is ...
... metaphysical ; and , under these several heads , shall briefly enquire , what new sources of pleasure it may supply to the contemplative recluse . 1. Natural Philosophy . The only solid basis on which this science can be erected is ...
الصفحة 280
... Metaphysics . Of metaphysical en- quiries we may observe , in the words of Tacitus , when speaking of the crafty coun- sels of worldly policy , that , however flat- tering in promise , they are generally dif- ficult in the prosecution ...
... Metaphysics . Of metaphysical en- quiries we may observe , in the words of Tacitus , when speaking of the crafty coun- sels of worldly policy , that , however flat- tering in promise , they are generally dif- ficult in the prosecution ...
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