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
... necessary relations , than for the man of sentiment , who mis- takes the suggestions of fancy , and the impulses of inordinate paffion , for the pure dictates of uncorrupted nature ; and whose boasted philanthropy generally ter- minates ...
... necessary relations , than for the man of sentiment , who mis- takes the suggestions of fancy , and the impulses of inordinate paffion , for the pure dictates of uncorrupted nature ; and whose boasted philanthropy generally ter- minates ...
الصفحة xi
... necessary to form a comfortable retirement . Above all , it will direct them to those inward resources , without which every condition of life is inevitably subject to vanity and disappointment . Thus they will be in- structed to a ...
... necessary to form a comfortable retirement . Above all , it will direct them to those inward resources , without which every condition of life is inevitably subject to vanity and disappointment . Thus they will be in- structed to a ...
الصفحة xiv
... re- gard has been paid to the productions of pagan writers , which too are now be- come much less necessary , since we are provided with so many admirable models of our own , superior to theirs in point of xiv PREFACE .
... re- gard has been paid to the productions of pagan writers , which too are now be- come much less necessary , since we are provided with so many admirable models of our own , superior to theirs in point of xiv PREFACE .
الصفحة 2
... necessary to withdraw from the noise and bustle of life , and to make his court to silence and solitude . If then an abstraction from the busy mul- titude be a needful preliminary in order suc- cessfully to investigate the laws of ...
... necessary to withdraw from the noise and bustle of life , and to make his court to silence and solitude . If then an abstraction from the busy mul- titude be a needful preliminary in order suc- cessfully to investigate the laws of ...
الصفحة 4
... necessary to obtain it ; without these previous disposi- tions , no outward advantages are fufficient to secure the acquisition . A man , thus un- qualified , may retire into the country , but he will grow no wiser there than he was ...
... necessary to obtain it ; without these previous disposi- tions , no outward advantages are fufficient to secure the acquisition . A man , thus un- qualified , may retire into the country , but he will grow no wiser there than he was ...
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