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 xxiii
... regeneration ; and to regenerate the laws , constitutions , opinions , and manners of society became the magic language which dwelt upon the lips of every modern reformado . the use of any lawful means to promote the spiritual a 4 PREFACE .
... regeneration ; and to regenerate the laws , constitutions , opinions , and manners of society became the magic language which dwelt upon the lips of every modern reformado . the use of any lawful means to promote the spiritual a 4 PREFACE .
الصفحة xxviii
... opinion ; of its principles he has no such diffidence ; nor can he hesitate to assert , that , were they generally admitted , the most important advantages would thence result both to public and private life ; men would find out their ...
... opinion ; of its principles he has no such diffidence ; nor can he hesitate to assert , that , were they generally admitted , the most important advantages would thence result both to public and private life ; men would find out their ...
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... opinion , That the gods were never angry , nor did harm to any one * : whence we may at least collect that the doctrine of punitive justice , or of that unalterable dis- plicency and resentment of sin , which is re- presented to us in ...
... opinion , That the gods were never angry , nor did harm to any one * : whence we may at least collect that the doctrine of punitive justice , or of that unalterable dis- plicency and resentment of sin , which is re- presented to us in ...
الصفحة 20
... to divert our attention from those manifold signatures of awful displeasure which are stamped on every part of the terrestrial system . It tends to beget in us an opinion that we are purely the 20 [ PARTI . On the Knowledge of God .
... to divert our attention from those manifold signatures of awful displeasure which are stamped on every part of the terrestrial system . It tends to beget in us an opinion that we are purely the 20 [ PARTI . On the Knowledge of God .
الصفحة 21
... opinion that we are purely the objects of divine benignity , and that every suffering we are called to undergo is no more than a fruit of paternal disci- pline , and a means to promote our happi- ness ; and contains in it nothing of ...
... opinion that we are purely the objects of divine benignity , and that every suffering we are called to undergo is no more than a fruit of paternal disci- pline , and a means to promote our happi- ness ; and contains in it nothing of ...
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