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 vii
... opinion or corrupt principle may direct , but according to the immutable measures of truth and duty . I am no more disposed to be an advocate for the dry moralist , who can talk of nothing but reason and fitness , and eternal and ...
... opinion or corrupt principle may direct , but according to the immutable measures of truth and duty . I am no more disposed to be an advocate for the dry moralist , who can talk of nothing but reason and fitness , and eternal and ...
Side xx
... to regenerate the laws , constitutions , opinions , and manners of society became the magic language which dwelt upon the lips of every mo- dern reformado . universal mischief , who shall deny that it is allowable XX PREFACE .
... to regenerate the laws , constitutions , opinions , and manners of society became the magic language which dwelt upon the lips of every mo- dern reformado . universal mischief , who shall deny that it is allowable XX PREFACE .
Side xxiv
... opinion ; of its principles he has no such diffidence ; nor can he hesitate to assert , that , were they generally admitted , the most important advantages would thence result both . to public and private life ; men would find out their ...
... opinion ; of its principles he has no such diffidence ; nor can he hesitate to assert , that , were they generally admitted , the most important advantages would thence result both . to public and private life ; men would find out their ...
Side 6
... opinion , that the gods were never angry , nor did harm to any one : * whence we may at least collect that the doctrine of punitive justice , or of that unalterable displacency and re- sentment of sin , which is represented to us in ...
... opinion , that the gods were never angry , nor did harm to any one : * whence we may at least collect that the doctrine of punitive justice , or of that unalterable displacency and re- sentment of sin , which is represented to us in ...
Side 14
... opinion that we are purely the objects of di- vine benignity , and that every suffering we are called to undergo is no more than a fruit of paternal disci- pline , and a mean to promote our happiness ; and contains in it nothing of ...
... opinion that we are purely the objects of di- vine benignity , and that every suffering we are called to undergo is no more than a fruit of paternal disci- pline , and a mean to promote our happiness ; and contains in it nothing of ...
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