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 xiv
... such extravagant re- gard has been paid to the productions of pagan writers , which too are now be- come much less necessary , since we are provided with so many admirable models of our own , superior to theirs in point of xiv PREFACE .
... such extravagant re- gard has been paid to the productions of pagan writers , which too are now be- come much less necessary , since we are provided with so many admirable models of our own , superior to theirs in point of xiv PREFACE .
الصفحة xv
... superior to theirs in point of science , and scarce inferior either in point of genius or elegance : yet we still continue to go down to the Philistines , to sharpen every one his share , and his coulter , and his are , and his mattock ...
... superior to theirs in point of science , and scarce inferior either in point of genius or elegance : yet we still continue to go down to the Philistines , to sharpen every one his share , and his coulter , and his are , and his mattock ...
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... superior lord , are partly involved in his fate . With him they share in the benignity of the common pa- rent ; with him likewise they suffer The penalty of Adam , the season's difference , As the icy fang , and churlish chiding of the ...
... superior lord , are partly involved in his fate . With him they share in the benignity of the common pa- rent ; with him likewise they suffer The penalty of Adam , the season's difference , As the icy fang , and churlish chiding of the ...
الصفحة 27
... superior nature to the latter ; and that the ablest philosopher , after all he can learn from the heavens and the earth , must apply to the great Teacher and Prophet of mankind , for that knowledge of God which will make him wise to ...
... superior nature to the latter ; and that the ablest philosopher , after all he can learn from the heavens and the earth , must apply to the great Teacher and Prophet of mankind , for that knowledge of God which will make him wise to ...
الصفحة 34
... superior . guidance . Our Saviour commanded the Jews to search the scriptures , because in them they had eternal life . The scrip- tures here referred to , we know , were those of the old Testament only ; which implies at least an equal ...
... superior . guidance . Our Saviour commanded the Jews to search the scriptures , because in them they had eternal life . The scrip- tures here referred to , we know , were those of the old Testament only ; which implies at least an equal ...
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