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 ix
... wisdom which teaches a man at once to enjoy and to improve a life of retirement , is , I think , a point too ob- vious to be contested . Whence is it else that the country is almost deserted ; that the ancient mansions of our nobility ...
... wisdom which teaches a man at once to enjoy and to improve a life of retirement , is , I think , a point too ob- vious to be contested . Whence is it else that the country is almost deserted ; that the ancient mansions of our nobility ...
الصفحة xix
... wisdom of Bacon , or the science of Newton . One thing more I would suggest to the serious reader ; which is , Not rashly to take offence at words or phrases , though they should not be perfectly theological , when he admits the sense ...
... wisdom of Bacon , or the science of Newton . One thing more I would suggest to the serious reader ; which is , Not rashly to take offence at words or phrases , though they should not be perfectly theological , when he admits the sense ...
الصفحة xxii
... . And so far as any one partakes of the wisdom and charity of this great apostle , he will be studious of the same pious * See I Cor . ch . 9 . accommodation to persons and circum- stances . Again : The xxii PREFACE .
... . And so far as any one partakes of the wisdom and charity of this great apostle , he will be studious of the same pious * See I Cor . ch . 9 . accommodation to persons and circum- stances . Again : The xxii PREFACE .
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... wisdom , who has never made any serious efforts to attain it ; to suppose that the knowledge of God is with him original and innate , which to the ancient poet Simonides , in B 2 SECT . I. ] On the Knowledge of God . 3.
... wisdom , who has never made any serious efforts to attain it ; to suppose that the knowledge of God is with him original and innate , which to the ancient poet Simonides , in B 2 SECT . I. ] On the Knowledge of God . 3.
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... wisdom is to feel the want of it , and the next is a willingness to bestow the pains which are necessary to obtain it ; without these previous disposi- tions , no outward advantages are sufficient to secure the acquisition . A man ...
... wisdom is to feel the want of it , and the next is a willingness to bestow the pains which are necessary to obtain it ; without these previous disposi- tions , no outward advantages are sufficient to secure the acquisition . A man ...
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