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
... former of these great men could not bring themselves to unite for the salvation of the world ! -or words to the same effect . of his celebrity . In the former part of the vi PREFACE .
... former of these great men could not bring themselves to unite for the salvation of the world ! -or words to the same effect . of his celebrity . In the former part of the vi PREFACE .
الصفحة vii
... former part of the last century , it was usual with writers on moral subjects to insist much on the reason and fitness of things , their several natures and mutual relations , and thence to deduce the laws of moral obligation ; and to ...
... former part of the last century , it was usual with writers on moral subjects to insist much on the reason and fitness of things , their several natures and mutual relations , and thence to deduce the laws of moral obligation ; and to ...
الصفحة xv
... former instance , I must beg a truce with prejudice , or , to use a softer language , I would desire such persons ETTEXEW , to suspend , agreeably to the true philosophic character , and not to censure before they have fairly considered ...
... former instance , I must beg a truce with prejudice , or , to use a softer language , I would desire such persons ETTEXEW , to suspend , agreeably to the true philosophic character , and not to censure before they have fairly considered ...
الصفحة xix
... former is friendly to both ; and he who is not careful to distinguish between them , may come at length to confound the light flippancy of Voltaire , or the grave and impious so- phistry of Helvetius and Diderot , with the wisdom of ...
... former is friendly to both ; and he who is not careful to distinguish between them , may come at length to confound the light flippancy of Voltaire , or the grave and impious so- phistry of Helvetius and Diderot , with the wisdom of ...
الصفحة xxi
... former mode of expression , heightened in its meaning , to elevate and reconcile the mind to the doctrines of revelation , than by the latter probably to do nothing more than provoke disgust or prejudice : at least , whether such a ...
... former mode of expression , heightened in its meaning , to elevate and reconcile the mind to the doctrines of revelation , than by the latter probably to do nothing more than provoke disgust or prejudice : at least , whether such a ...
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الصفحة 169 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
الصفحة 336 - And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it ; but I found none.
الصفحة 73 - And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
الصفحة 190 - Thou fool ! that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
الصفحة 164 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
الصفحة 303 - To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy ! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss, All various Nature pressing on the heart : An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven.
الصفحة 246 - The first night that I came hither I caught " so great a cold, with a defluxion of rheum, as " made me keep my chamber ten days. And, " two after, had such a bruise on my ribs with a " fall, that I am yet unable to move or turn my
الصفحة 168 - My good Child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the Commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace; which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer.
الصفحة 287 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
الصفحة 366 - I do confess, since I was of any understanding, my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done; and in absence are many errors which I do willingly acknowledge; and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest; that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes; for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind.