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 x
... - city ; unless the mind is happily forti- fied against the seduction , by a philoso- phy which can supply both pleasure and employment without the aid of artificial life . 2 The same philosophy will be of no less use x PREFACE .
... - city ; unless the mind is happily forti- fied against the seduction , by a philoso- phy which can supply both pleasure and employment without the aid of artificial life . 2 The same philosophy will be of no less use x PREFACE .
الصفحة xiii
... . As I have no mind to incur any man's censure if I can fairly avoid it , I would intreat such a literato to let his indignation abate before he pass 2 a definitive sentence ; and this request may seem the PREFACE . xiii.
... . As I have no mind to incur any man's censure if I can fairly avoid it , I would intreat such a literato to let his indignation abate before he pass 2 a definitive sentence ; and this request may seem the PREFACE . xiii.
الصفحة xviii
... mind , shews its imper- fections while it increases its acquisitions . It cannot therefore be too much lamented , that this philosophy has of late times given place to a miserable substitute , which , rejecting that severe induction ...
... mind , shews its imper- fections while it increases its acquisitions . It cannot therefore be too much lamented , that this philosophy has of late times given place to a miserable substitute , which , rejecting that severe induction ...
الصفحة xxi
... 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 liberty may not be permitted to a lay- man , and in a discourse which is not confined to ...
... 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 liberty may not be permitted to a lay- man , and in a discourse which is not confined to ...
الصفحة xxv
... minds are well - disposed towards religion , and at the same time somewhat opened by edu- cation , that this small rural labour is chiefly addressed ; and should it in any degree be of use to establish their prin- ciples , or to direct ...
... minds are well - disposed towards religion , and at the same time somewhat opened by edu- cation , that this small rural labour is chiefly addressed ; and should it in any degree be of use to establish their prin- ciples , or to direct ...
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