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 xxvii
... - ciently to mere speculation ; but this , as years advanced , he has found less attrac- tive , and has gradually been led to view things not so much in their abstract na- ture , as in their moral and practical ten- dencies PREFACE . xxvii.
... - ciently to mere speculation ; but this , as years advanced , he has found less attrac- tive , and has gradually been led to view things not so much in their abstract na- ture , as in their moral and practical ten- dencies PREFACE . xxvii.
الصفحة xxviii
... practical ten- dencies ; and to induce the same disposi- tion in others constitutes one principal end of the present work . Of its execu- tion , indeed , he entertains , as is fit , a very moderate opinion ; of its principles he has no ...
... practical ten- dencies ; and to induce the same disposi- tion in others constitutes one principal end of the present work . Of its execu- tion , indeed , he entertains , as is fit , a very moderate opinion ; of its principles he has no ...
الصفحة 43
... 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 would philosophize in a due and proper manner , must dissect nature , but ...
... 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 would philosophize in a due and proper manner , must dissect nature , but ...
الصفحة 47
... practical morality ; he prescribed a community of wives in his scheme of a perfect common- wealth , and in other respects gave much scope to the sensual passions ; he allowed parents , in some cases , to destroy or ex- pose their ...
... practical morality ; he prescribed a community of wives in his scheme of a perfect common- wealth , and in other respects gave much scope to the sensual passions ; he allowed parents , in some cases , to destroy or ex- pose their ...
الصفحة 75
... practical at- tainment , of that repentance which is unto life ; who imagine , that if they can but ex- perience a sensible degree of sorrow for sin , and place a confident dependence on the merits of Christ , though unaccom- panied by ...
... practical at- tainment , of that repentance which is unto life ; who imagine , that if they can but ex- perience a sensible degree of sorrow for sin , and place a confident dependence on the merits of Christ , though unaccom- panied by ...
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