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 vi
... regards their writings in common as devoted to the in- struction and happiness of mankind * , must have very slender pretensions to the cha- racter either of a philofopher or a moralist : and , when most favourably estimated , can only ...
... regards their writings in common as devoted to the in- struction and happiness of mankind * , must have very slender pretensions to the cha- racter either of a philofopher or a moralist : and , when most favourably estimated , can only ...
الصفحة xxi
... regard is due to the very language of scripture , and that by a wan- ton or injudicious departure from it Chris- tianity has suffered in its most essential doctrines , and been almost reduced to a system of ethics ; but it ought also ...
... regard is due to the very language of scripture , and that by a wan- ton or injudicious departure from it Chris- tianity has suffered in its most essential doctrines , and been almost reduced to a system of ethics ; but it ought also ...
الصفحة xxiv
... regard to particular words or phrases , or any other partiality whatever , to speak up honestly to the reality of things , and to convey important truth with evidence and impression . And this effect , it is hoped , XXIV PREFACE .
... regard to particular words or phrases , or any other partiality whatever , to speak up honestly to the reality of things , and to convey important truth with evidence and impression . And this effect , it is hoped , XXIV PREFACE .
الصفحة xxvii
... regard has been had to use than to theory , to what is just and applicable to human conduct , than to re- searches that might seem profound or scientific ; which the equitable reader , it is presumed , will neither ascribe to the ...
... regard has been had to use than to theory , to what is just and applicable to human conduct , than to re- searches that might seem profound or scientific ; which the equitable reader , it is presumed , will neither ascribe to the ...
الصفحة 9
... regard to every discovery that God has been pleased to make of himself in his word , as well as in his works . Otherwise , if in contempt or neglect of the former , he trusts to his own researches into the latter , he will proba- bly ...
... regard to every discovery that God has been pleased to make of himself in his word , as well as in his works . Otherwise , if in contempt or neglect of the former , he trusts to his own researches into the latter , he will proba- bly ...
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