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 vii
... 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 his feelings , would have been thought at best extremely ...
... 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 his feelings , would have been thought at best extremely ...
الصفحة viii
... 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 boasted philanthropy generally ter- minates in empty ...
... 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 boasted philanthropy generally ter- minates in empty ...
الصفحة xxv
... 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 . In treating of the knowledge of God , I have PREFACE .
... 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 . In treating of the knowledge of God , I have PREFACE .
الصفحة xxvi
... relation of a holy and righteous ruler , and gracious benefactor , is put with- in the reach of our discovery ; and , to those who are brought to a proper sense of their moral situation , is a knowledge both cheer- ing and salutary ...
... relation of a holy and righteous ruler , and gracious benefactor , is put with- in the reach of our discovery ; and , to those who are brought to a proper sense of their moral situation , is a knowledge both cheer- ing and salutary ...
الصفحة 18
... relation to God as a benign Creator only , of the treatment we receive in the course of his providence ? Should he sug- gest as a solution of this difficulty , as he probably may , that it is for our trial , for the exercise and ...
... relation to God as a benign Creator only , of the treatment we receive in the course of his providence ? Should he sug- gest as a solution of this difficulty , as he probably may , that it is for our trial , for the exercise and ...
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