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 v
... imagination which might be thought sublime ; but does not seem to have been equally distinguished by force of reason or solidity of judgment . In his philoso- phy he appears to me superficial , and in his ! notions of virtue wild and ...
... imagination which might be thought sublime ; but does not seem to have been equally distinguished by force of reason or solidity of judgment . In his philoso- phy he appears to me superficial , and in his ! notions of virtue wild and ...
Side 22
... imagination , we should find that , instead of re- flecting his true character , it would only exhibit , like a magical glass , its own superstitions and apparitions . * The end of prayer is not to turn our attention from any of the ...
... imagination , we should find that , instead of re- flecting his true character , it would only exhibit , like a magical glass , its own superstitions and apparitions . * The end of prayer is not to turn our attention from any of the ...
Side 28
... imagination a flock of sheep ( absit invidia verbo ) , which I was used to observe in a morning , coursing round and round the top of a hill , though it seemed , I suppose , to them , as if they went straight forward . Something ...
... imagination a flock of sheep ( absit invidia verbo ) , which I was used to observe in a morning , coursing round and round the top of a hill , though it seemed , I suppose , to them , as if they went straight forward . Something ...
Side 65
... imagination . This is the complection , which , in the opinion of Aristotle , is attached to all extraordinary genius ; it forms the basis , according to the part which predominates , of a general , a statesman , a poet , or a ...
... imagination . This is the complection , which , in the opinion of Aristotle , is attached to all extraordinary genius ; it forms the basis , according to the part which predominates , of a general , a statesman , a poet , or a ...
Side 70
... imagination , that its great end is pleasure and amusement ? What is more to be la- mented , than that , by wrong principles early imbi- bed , the few days of man on earth should be em- bittered by perpetual disappointment , and at ...
... imagination , that its great end is pleasure and amusement ? What is more to be la- mented , than that , by wrong principles early imbi- bed , the few days of man on earth should be em- bittered by perpetual disappointment , and at ...
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