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 xi
... proper qualifications for such a change , and that many things be- sides hounds and horses , murmuring streams and shady groves , sumptuous houses and large estates , are necessary to form a comfortable retirement . Above all , it will ...
... proper qualifications for such a change , and that many things be- sides hounds and horses , murmuring streams and shady groves , sumptuous houses and large estates , are necessary to form a comfortable retirement . Above all , it will ...
الصفحة xiv
... proper respect to the classics , by which I mean chiefly the heathen poets . I have spoken of them in no harsher terms than some of the gravest heathen philosophers them- selves have done , or than are warranted by a much higher ...
... proper respect to the classics , by which I mean chiefly the heathen poets . I have spoken of them in no harsher terms than some of the gravest heathen philosophers them- selves have done , or than are warranted by a much higher ...
الصفحة xvii
... use of reason that we are naturally led to the discovery of truth , and no one truth can be hostile to another . Reason , therefore , in its proper a exercise , can never be in contradiction to revelation , PREFACE . xvii.
... use of reason that we are naturally led to the discovery of truth , and no one truth can be hostile to another . Reason , therefore , in its proper a exercise , can never be in contradiction to revelation , PREFACE . xvii.
الصفحة xxv
... proper to omit , as occasions , would arise in the following parts for 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 ...
... proper to omit , as occasions , would arise in the following parts for 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 ...
الصفحة xxvi
... proper sense of their moral situation , is a knowledge both cheer- ing and salutary . And I have the rather insisted upon this topic , because it is usual with men , either to entertain ideas of divine goodness which are derogatory to ...
... proper sense of their moral situation , is a knowledge both cheer- ing and salutary . And I have the rather insisted upon this topic , because it is usual with men , either to entertain ideas of divine goodness which are derogatory to ...
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