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
... religion and government , seemed in a kind of conspiracy against itself : which is here re- marked , in order to account for a few passages which might be thought less applicable at pre- sent , when so many hopeful symptoms appear of a ...
... religion and government , seemed in a kind of conspiracy against itself : which is here re- marked , in order to account for a few passages which might be thought less applicable at pre- sent , when so many hopeful symptoms appear of a ...
Side vii
... religion and morals , which has greatly tarnished their beau- ty , and impaired their authority . What , then , it be said , would you deprive men of their natural susceptibility , and convert them into Stoics ! No : for this would be ...
... religion and morals , which has greatly tarnished their beau- ty , and impaired their authority . What , then , it be said , would you deprive men of their natural susceptibility , and convert them into Stoics ! No : for this would be ...
Side xiii
... 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 suspend , agreeably to the true philosophic character , and not to censure before ...
... 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 suspend , agreeably to the true philosophic character , and not to censure before ...
Side xv
... religion has suffered by the abuse of reason and philosophy , consider them as essentially hostile to her in- terests . Here , while I commend the zeal of these good men , I must dissent from their judgment , It is by the legitimate use ...
... religion has suffered by the abuse of reason and philosophy , consider them as essentially hostile to her in- terests . Here , while I commend the zeal of these good men , I must dissent from their judgment , It is by the legitimate use ...
Side xvi
... religion and true science , whereas the for- mer is friendly to both ; and he who is not careful to distinguish between them , may come at length to confound the light flippancy of Voltaire , or the grave and impious sophis- try of ...
... religion and true science , whereas the for- mer is friendly to both ; and he who is not careful to distinguish between them , may come at length to confound the light flippancy of Voltaire , or the grave and impious sophis- try of ...
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