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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... recluse , therefore , who would duly estimate his virtues and capacities , must learn to reduce them to their practical value . He must not presume that his supposed wisdom will extricate him as easily from real as from imaginary ...
... recluse , therefore , who would duly estimate his virtues and capacities , must learn to reduce them to their practical value . He must not presume that his supposed wisdom will extricate him as easily from real as from imaginary ...
الصفحة 84
... recluse , was forty years old before he handled a pike , and yet suddenly commenced a great general ; he sat for some time undis- tinguished in parliament , and it was only upon the occasions which afterwards arose that his ...
... recluse , was forty years old before he handled a pike , and yet suddenly commenced a great general ; he sat for some time undis- tinguished in parliament , and it was only upon the occasions which afterwards arose that his ...
الصفحة 89
... recluse is equally shut out from an exact knowledge of business , which , like all other practical skill , can only be acquired in the school of experience . Here then , as in the former instance , we allow the man of the world to bear ...
... recluse is equally shut out from an exact knowledge of business , which , like all other practical skill , can only be acquired in the school of experience . Here then , as in the former instance , we allow the man of the world to bear ...
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... recluse , and was a man of such extreme timidity as almost disqualified him for ordinary con- verse ; and the former , at the age of five- and - twenty , withdrew himself from society , and passed the remainder of his days shut up in ...
... recluse , and was a man of such extreme timidity as almost disqualified him for ordinary con- verse ; and the former , at the age of five- and - twenty , withdrew himself from society , and passed the remainder of his days shut up in ...
الصفحة 105
... recluse for his ignorance , or none to applaud himself for his own candour . # III . To know the world in the third sense , or in respect to its value , is to know it as transitory , unsatisfying , and dangerous . This knowledge of the ...
... recluse for his ignorance , or none to applaud himself for his own candour . # III . To know the world in the third sense , or in respect to its value , is to know it as transitory , unsatisfying , and dangerous . This knowledge of the ...
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