Rural Philosophy: Or Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness; Chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the CountryLongman and Rees, 1804 - 383 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xvii
... consider them as essentially hostile to her interests . Here , while I commend the zeal of these good men , I must dissent from their judgment . It is by the legitimate use of reason that we are naturally led to the discovery of truth ...
... consider them as essentially hostile to her interests . Here , while I commend the zeal of these good men , I must dissent from their judgment . It is by the legitimate use of reason that we are naturally led to the discovery of truth ...
الصفحة xxv
... strictures of this nature as would sufficiently answer my purpose ; which was , to consider human learning simply in its relation to virtue and happiness . 2 In treating of the knowledge of God , I have PREFACE . XXV.
... strictures of this nature as would sufficiently answer my purpose ; which was , to consider human learning simply in its relation to virtue and happiness . 2 In treating of the knowledge of God , I have PREFACE . XXV.
الصفحة 7
... consider how much the greatest sages of paganism miscarried in their spe- culations on this most important subject . Some of them fell into the grossest atheism , as Democritus and Strato , and their follow- ers , who vainly endeavoured ...
... consider how much the greatest sages of paganism miscarried in their spe- culations on this most important subject . Some of them fell into the grossest atheism , as Democritus and Strato , and their follow- ers , who vainly endeavoured ...
الصفحة 13
... consider this great truth as the key of all philosophy . " ( Ibid . p . 275. ) Among his other strange theories , his account of the tides , from the melting of the ice at the polar regions , is singularly wild and improbable . - From ...
... consider this great truth as the key of all philosophy . " ( Ibid . p . 275. ) Among his other strange theories , his account of the tides , from the melting of the ice at the polar regions , is singularly wild and improbable . - From ...
الصفحة 17
... phi- losopher , who looks only to the present state of things , without considering the change that has taken place by man's diso- C bedience , must prove extremely dark and inexplicable . For SECT . I. ] On the Knowledge of God . 17.
... phi- losopher , who looks only to the present state of things , without considering the change that has taken place by man's diso- C bedience , must prove extremely dark and inexplicable . For SECT . I. ] On the Knowledge of God . 17.
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