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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... ment · SECT . III . The Pleasures of a devotional Re- tirement considered • • • • · 259..285 • 286..303 PART IV . IN WHICH A COMMON OBJECTION AGAINST A LIFE OF RETIREMENT , NAMELY , THAT IT DESTROYS OR DI- MINISHES DERED . USEFULNESS IS ...
... ment · SECT . III . The Pleasures of a devotional Re- tirement considered • • • • · 259..285 • 286..303 PART IV . IN WHICH A COMMON OBJECTION AGAINST A LIFE OF RETIREMENT , NAMELY , THAT IT DESTROYS OR DI- MINISHES DERED . USEFULNESS IS ...
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... ment . Or if he would examine into the powers and faculties of his own mind , and curiously trace its operations , he will find it still more necessary to withdraw from the noise and bustle of life , and to make his court to silence and ...
... ment . Or if he would examine into the powers and faculties of his own mind , and curiously trace its operations , he will find it still more necessary to withdraw from the noise and bustle of life , and to make his court to silence and ...
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... ment of the weakness of human under- standing , let me add that of another very eminent philosopher * , who , in a prayer highly admired by Mr. Addison , thus ad- dresses the Almighty , " I have sought thee in courts , fields , and ...
... ment of the weakness of human under- standing , let me add that of another very eminent philosopher * , who , in a prayer highly admired by Mr. Addison , thus ad- dresses the Almighty , " I have sought thee in courts , fields , and ...
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... us , whatever we may thence collect concern- ing the relation he bears towards us as the Creator and Governor of the world , or of his propensity to mercy and reconcile- ment . He therefore SECT . I. ] On the Knowledge of God . 25.
... us , whatever we may thence collect concern- ing the relation he bears towards us as the Creator and Governor of the world , or of his propensity to mercy and reconcile- ment . He therefore SECT . I. ] On the Knowledge of God . 25.
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... ment . He therefore who aspires after the know- ledge now described , must direct his atten- tion to those objects which are revealed to us only in scripture ; and to that object in particular , in which the Almighty has manifested ...
... ment . He therefore who aspires after the know- ledge now described , must direct his atten- tion to those objects which are revealed to us only in scripture ; and to that object in particular , in which the Almighty has manifested ...
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