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 xvi
... says very well , in speaking of reason , Ah ! if she lend not arms as well as rules , What can she more than tell us we are fools ; Teach us to mourn our nature , not to mend ; A sharp accuser , but a helpless friend ! disquisitions ...
... says very well , in speaking of reason , Ah ! if she lend not arms as well as rules , What can she more than tell us we are fools ; Teach us to mourn our nature , not to mend ; A sharp accuser , but a helpless friend ! disquisitions ...
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... says the author , " sometimes ravage his orchards and his corn - fields , it is because he frequently places them where nature never intended they should grow . Storms scarcely ever injure any culture , except the injudicious ...
... says the author , " sometimes ravage his orchards and his corn - fields , it is because he frequently places them where nature never intended they should grow . Storms scarcely ever injure any culture , except the injudicious ...
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... ( says he ) for the consolation of the human race , moral evil is foreign to man as well as physical . " ( Vol . v . p . 434. ) And should it be enquired how the world came to be so generally corrupt as we now find it , he will answer ...
... ( says he ) for the consolation of the human race , moral evil is foreign to man as well as physical . " ( Vol . v . p . 434. ) And should it be enquired how the world came to be so generally corrupt as we now find it , he will answer ...
الصفحة 23
... says : Ver erat æternum ; placidique tepentibus auris Mulcebant Zephyri natos sine semine flores . Mox etiam fruges tellus inarata ferebat ; Nec renovatus ager gravidis canebat aristis . Flumina jam lactis , jam flumina nectaris ibant ...
... says : Ver erat æternum ; placidique tepentibus auris Mulcebant Zephyri natos sine semine flores . Mox etiam fruges tellus inarata ferebat ; Nec renovatus ager gravidis canebat aristis . Flumina jam lactis , jam flumina nectaris ibant ...
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... says , " I thank God for the light of revelation which sets my poor reason at rest in many things that lay beyond the reach of its discovery . " To this memorable and pious acknowledg- ment of the weakness of human under- standing , let ...
... says , " I thank God for the light of revelation which sets my poor reason at rest in many things that lay beyond the reach of its discovery . " To this memorable and pious acknowledg- ment of the weakness of human under- standing , let ...
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