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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... 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 same philosophy will be of no less use PREFACE .
... 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 same philosophy will be of no less use PREFACE .
الصفحة xxx
... Pleasures of a literary Retire- ment . 259..285 SECT . III . The Pleasures of a devotional Re- tirement considered 286..303 PART IV . IN WHICH A COMMON OBJECTION AGAINST A LIFE OF RETIREMENT , NAMELY , THAT IT DESTROYS OR DI- MINISHES ...
... Pleasures of a literary Retire- ment . 259..285 SECT . III . The Pleasures of a devotional Re- tirement considered 286..303 PART IV . IN WHICH A COMMON OBJECTION AGAINST A LIFE OF RETIREMENT , NAMELY , THAT IT DESTROYS OR DI- MINISHES ...
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... pleasure , beauty and harmony . I call the instant and the point of their union harmonic expression . This is the only principle which I have been able to perceive in nature . ” ( Vol . ii . p . 279. ) Again , " Nature opposes beings to ...
... pleasure , beauty and harmony . I call the instant and the point of their union harmonic expression . This is the only principle which I have been able to perceive in nature . ” ( Vol . ii . p . 279. ) Again , " Nature opposes beings to ...
الصفحة 33
... pleasure therein ; he hath so done his marvellous works , that they ought to be had in remem- brance . True philosophy , when kept in due subordination , is favourable to true religion , serves to shew its necessity , and by ...
... pleasure therein ; he hath so done his marvellous works , that they ought to be had in remem- brance . True philosophy , when kept in due subordination , is favourable to true religion , serves to shew its necessity , and by ...
الصفحة 68
... proceeds upon evidence , and is proportioned to it ; and is therefore widely different from an opinion formed at pleasure , without any perception of its truth , either intuitively , or by 68 On the Knowledge of Ourselves . [ PART I.
... proceeds upon evidence , and is proportioned to it ; and is therefore widely different from an opinion formed at pleasure , without any perception of its truth , either intuitively , or by 68 On the Knowledge of Ourselves . [ PART I.
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