Rural Philosophy: Or, Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness; Chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the CountryLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - 276 sider |
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Side iii
... depend on those 、 general principles of truth and nature , which ought to regulate human conduct at all times , and in all conjunctures : and as to an author's private inducements for presenting himself before the public , the XW56 124097.
... depend on those 、 general principles of truth and nature , which ought to regulate human conduct at all times , and in all conjunctures : and as to an author's private inducements for presenting himself before the public , the XW56 124097.
Side xiii
... human understanding beyond all due measure , and to make philoso- phy a rival to religion . Here , as in the former instance , I must beg a truce with prejudice , or , to use a softer language , I would desire such persons xuv , to ...
... human understanding beyond all due measure , and to make philoso- phy a rival to religion . Here , as in the former instance , I must beg a truce with prejudice , or , to use a softer language , I would desire such persons xuv , to ...
Side xiv
... human reason , but only to direct it to those aids and assistances , without which it can never fully discover to us the reality and exi- gency of our moral situation ; and even were it so far sufficient , would do us little service ...
... human reason , but only to direct it to those aids and assistances , without which it can never fully discover to us the reality and exi- gency of our moral situation ; and even were it so far sufficient , would do us little service ...
Side xviii
... human duty have narrowly confined this duty to the offices of social and civil life : an abuse which goes at once to shut all religion out of the world , and in its ultimate tendency to destroy even that virtue which is pretended ; for ...
... human duty have narrowly confined this duty to the offices of social and civil life : an abuse which goes at once to shut all religion out of the world , and in its ultimate tendency to destroy even that virtue which is pretended ; for ...
Side xx
... human eloquence , and who resort even to the peculiar dialect of scrip- ture , in order to overspread the world with infidelity , vice , and anarchy , * may furnish something towards his apology , who endea . vours to improve the ...
... human eloquence , and who resort even to the peculiar dialect of scrip- ture , in order to overspread the world with infidelity , vice , and anarchy , * may furnish something towards his apology , who endea . vours to improve the ...
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