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 viii
... passion , for the pure dictates of uncorrupted nature ; and whofe boasted philanthropy generally ter- minates in empty speculations and barren sensibilities . The following discourse proceeds upon other principles ; its foundation is ...
... passion , for the pure dictates of uncorrupted nature ; and whofe boasted philanthropy generally ter- minates in empty speculations and barren sensibilities . The following discourse proceeds upon other principles ; its foundation is ...
الصفحة xvi
... passion , to reason rectified and informed by the light and grace of the Christian dispensation . In like manner , it may be found that here is no design to decry true philoso- phy , but rather to vindicate it from the reproach under ...
... passion , to reason rectified and informed by the light and grace of the Christian dispensation . In like manner , it may be found that here is no design to decry true philoso- phy , but rather to vindicate it from the reproach under ...
الصفحة 16
... passions , who , if his disobedient children are not reclaimed by lighter chastisements , will not spare to treat them with greater rigours , no less from a regard to their wel- fare than to his own dignity and just au- thority ...
... passions , who , if his disobedient children are not reclaimed by lighter chastisements , will not spare to treat them with greater rigours , no less from a regard to their wel- fare than to his own dignity and just au- thority ...
الصفحة 47
... passions ; he allowed parents , in some cases , to destroy or ex- pose their children ; and , what is more di- rectly to our present purpose , though he endeavoured to persuade his countrymen to be disposed towards one another as bre ...
... passions ; he allowed parents , in some cases , to destroy or ex- pose their children ; and , what is more di- rectly to our present purpose , though he endeavoured to persuade his countrymen to be disposed towards one another as bre ...
الصفحة 60
... passion for riches . Whatever has the ascendancy in the heart of man is the god that he serves , and the reward will correspond to the service ; or , as the apostle speaks to the Romans , To whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey ...
... passion for riches . Whatever has the ascendancy in the heart of man is the god that he serves , and the reward will correspond to the service ; or , as the apostle speaks to the Romans , To whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey ...
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