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 xiv
... divine revelation . It is for want of re- curring to this infallible standard of truth and excellence , that such extravagant re- gard has been paid to the productions of pagan writers , which too are now be come much less necessary ...
... divine revelation . It is for want of re- curring to this infallible standard of truth and excellence , that such extravagant re- gard has been paid to the productions of pagan writers , which too are now be come much less necessary ...
الصفحة xviii
... divine oculist , to enable it to a due discharge of its spiritual office . Again , what is true philosophy but syste- matic reason , which first by a just analysis arrives at general principles , and then erects upon them noble fabrics ...
... divine oculist , to enable it to a due discharge of its spiritual office . Again , what is true philosophy but syste- matic reason , which first by a just analysis arrives at general principles , and then erects upon them noble fabrics ...
الصفحة xxvi
... divine goodness which are derogatory to perfect holiness and justice , or to exalt these latter attributes , taken in conjunc- tion with absolute sovereignty , to the pre- * Prov . xxv . 27 . gloriâ . So the Vulgate . Scrutator ...
... divine goodness which are derogatory to perfect holiness and justice , or to exalt these latter attributes , taken in conjunc- tion with absolute sovereignty , to the pre- * Prov . xxv . 27 . gloriâ . So the Vulgate . Scrutator ...
الصفحة xxviii
... the reader ; but , above all , to that divine blessing , which can prosper the meanest endeavours , and without which the greatest and ablest must prove abortive . 1 CONTENTS . PART I. REFLECTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE . SECT . xxviii . PREFACE .
... the reader ; but , above all , to that divine blessing , which can prosper the meanest endeavours , and without which the greatest and ablest must prove abortive . 1 CONTENTS . PART I. REFLECTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE . SECT . xxviii . PREFACE .
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... divine attestation ; they find Tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , and good in every thing . It is to these , and such as these , whose minds are in some degree awake to religion , * Prov . ii . 3-5 ...
... divine attestation ; they find Tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , and good in every thing . It is to these , and such as these , whose minds are in some degree awake to religion , * Prov . ii . 3-5 ...
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