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 vi
... reason or solidity of judgment . In his philosophy he ap- pears to me superficial , and in his notions of virtue wild and romantic . To justify this censure it may be sufficient to observe , that an author who associates the names of ...
... reason or solidity of judgment . In his philosophy he ap- pears to me superficial , and in his notions of virtue wild and romantic . To justify this censure it may be sufficient to observe , that an author who associates the names of ...
الصفحة vii
... reason and fitness of things , their several natures and mutual relations , and thence to deduce the laws of moral obligation ; and to have deserted these grounds for the sake of a theory which leaves every one to resolve his duty into ...
... reason and fitness of things , their several natures and mutual relations , and thence to deduce the laws of moral obligation ; and to have deserted these grounds for the sake of a theory which leaves every one to resolve his duty into ...
الصفحة viii
... reason and fitness , and eternal and 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 ...
... reason and fitness , and eternal and 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 ...
الصفحة ix
... reasons which may , perhaps , be thought sufficient to justify , or , at least , to excuse its publication . That there exists at present amongst us a lamentable want of rural philosophy , or of that wisdom which teaches a man at once ...
... reasons which may , perhaps , be thought sufficient to justify , or , at least , to excuse its publication . That there exists at present amongst us a lamentable want of rural philosophy , or of that wisdom which teaches a man at once ...
الصفحة xiv
... reason and truth . I do not know that I have been deficient in any 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 ...
... reason and truth . I do not know that I have been deficient in any 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 ...
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