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 iv
... reader will be more disposed to collect them from the tenor of his performance , than from the fairness of his professions , or the solem- nity of his protestations . PREFACE . THE following pages owe their birth to a iv ADVERTISEMENT .
... reader will be more disposed to collect them from the tenor of his performance , than from the fairness of his professions , or the solem- nity of his protestations . PREFACE . THE following pages owe their birth to a iv ADVERTISEMENT .
الصفحة xii
... reader , it is presumed , will find no attempt at vain panegyric , or unjust disparagement , no fanciful descriptions of rural innocence and felicity , nor any aggravated censures of the business or pursuits of the world . On the ...
... reader , it is presumed , will find no attempt at vain panegyric , or unjust disparagement , no fanciful descriptions of rural innocence and felicity , nor any aggravated censures of the business or pursuits of the world . On the ...
الصفحة xiii
... readers , in order to obviate certain prejudices , to which I foresee they will be liable in perusing the following reflections . First , I would offer a word to the ad- mirers of what is usually called classical learning . This , I ...
... readers , in order to obviate certain prejudices , to which I foresee they will be liable in perusing the following reflections . First , I would offer a word to the ad- mirers of what is usually called classical learning . This , I ...
الصفحة xix
... reader ; which is , Not rashly to take offence at words or phrases , though they should not be perfectly theological , when he admits the sense meant to be con veyed by them . This is an evil to which good men are sometimes liable , and ...
... reader ; which is , Not rashly to take offence at words or phrases , though they should not be perfectly theological , when he admits the sense meant to be con veyed by them . This is an evil to which good men are sometimes liable , and ...
الصفحة xxv
... readers , whose minds are well - disposed towards religion , and at the same time somewhat opened by edu- eation , that this small rural labour is chiefly addressed ; and should it in any degree be of use to establish their prin- ciples ...
... readers , whose minds are well - disposed towards religion , and at the same time somewhat opened by edu- eation , that this small rural labour is chiefly addressed ; and should it in any degree be of use to establish their prin- ciples ...
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