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 viii
... natural susceptibility , and convert them into Stoics ! No : for this would be to deprive them of half their virtue ... nature ; and whose boasted philanthropy generally ter- minates in empty speculations and barren sensibilities . The ...
... natural susceptibility , and convert them into Stoics ! No : for this would be to deprive them of half their virtue ... nature ; and whose boasted philanthropy generally ter- minates in empty speculations and barren sensibilities . The ...
الصفحة xvi
... nature , together with their moral and political * Pope says very well , in speaking of reason , Ah ! if she lend not arms as well as rules , What can she more than tell us we are fools ; Teach us to mourn our nature , not to mend ; A ...
... nature , together with their moral and political * Pope says very well , in speaking of reason , Ah ! if she lend not arms as well as rules , What can she more than tell us we are fools ; Teach us to mourn our nature , not to mend ; A ...
الصفحة xxv
... as many strictures of this nature as would sufficiently answer my purpose ; which was , to consider human learning simply in its relation to virtue and happiness . In treating of the knowledge of God , I have PREFACE .
... as many strictures of this nature as would sufficiently answer my purpose ; which was , to consider human learning simply in its relation to virtue and happiness . In treating of the knowledge of God , I have PREFACE .
الصفحة xxviii
... nature and scope of those which follow . The whole is now committed to the candour of the reader ; but , above all , to that divine blessing , which can prosper the meanest endeavours , and without which the greatest and ablest must ...
... nature and scope of those which follow . The whole is now committed to the candour of the reader ; but , above all , to that divine blessing , which can prosper the meanest endeavours , and without which the greatest and ablest must ...
الصفحة 1
... . To investigate the more abstruse properties of number and figure , or to ex- plore the secrets of nature , a man must ex- change the tumultuous scenes of business , B and the giddy circles of dissipation , for the calm.
... . To investigate the more abstruse properties of number and figure , or to ex- plore the secrets of nature , a man must ex- change the tumultuous scenes of business , B and the giddy circles of dissipation , for the calm.
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