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 vi
... moral subjects to insist much on the reason and fitness of things , their several natures and mutual relations , and thence to deduce the laws of moral obligation ; and to have deserted these grounds for the sake of a theory which ...
... moral subjects to insist much on the reason and fitness of things , their several natures and mutual relations , and thence to deduce the laws of moral obligation ; and to have deserted these grounds for the sake of a theory which ...
Side ix
... moral and intellectual enjoyment . It is indeed only in late times that this mi- gratory spirit has been prevalent . Our great grandfathers were content to reside in the country the year round . They were neither led abroad by the ...
... moral and intellectual enjoyment . It is indeed only in late times that this mi- gratory spirit has been prevalent . Our great grandfathers were content to reside in the country the year round . They were neither led abroad by the ...
Side xiv
... moral situation ; and even were it so far sufficient , would do us little service , unless , at the same time , it could point out some adequate means of relief . * My appeal is not from , reason absolutely considered , but from reason ...
... moral situation ; and even were it so far sufficient , would do us little service , unless , at the same time , it could point out some adequate means of relief . * My appeal is not from , reason absolutely considered , but from reason ...
Side xxii
... moral situa- tion , is a knowledge both cheering and sa- lutary . And I have the rather insisted upon * Prov . xxv . 27. Scrutator majestatis , opprimetur gloriâ . Se the Vulgate . this topic , because it is usual with men ,, xxii PREFACE .
... moral situa- tion , is a knowledge both cheering and sa- lutary . And I have the rather insisted upon * Prov . xxv . 27. Scrutator majestatis , opprimetur gloriâ . Se the Vulgate . this topic , because it is usual with men ,, xxii PREFACE .
Side xxiii
... of life have indulged suffi- ciently to mere speculation ; but this , as years advanced , he has found less attractive , and has gradually been led to view things not so • much in their abstract nature , as in their moral PREFACE . xxiii.
... of life have indulged suffi- ciently to mere speculation ; but this , as years advanced , he has found less attractive , and has gradually been led to view things not so • much in their abstract nature , as in their moral PREFACE . xxiii.
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