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 viii
... wisdom which teaches a man at once to enjoy and to improve a life of retirement , is , I think , a point too obvious to be contested . Whence is it else that the country is almost deserted ; that the ancient mansions of our nobility and ...
... wisdom which teaches a man at once to enjoy and to improve a life of retirement , is , I think , a point too obvious to be contested . Whence is it else that the country is almost deserted ; that the ancient mansions of our nobility and ...
Side xvi
... at length to confound the light flippancy of Voltaire , or the grave and impious sophis- try of Helvetius and Diderot , with the wisdom of Bacon , or the science of Newton . 2 One thing more I would suggest to the se- rious xvi PREFACE .
... at length to confound the light flippancy of Voltaire , or the grave and impious sophis- try of Helvetius and Diderot , with the wisdom of Bacon , or the science of Newton . 2 One thing more I would suggest to the se- rious xvi PREFACE .
Side xix
... any one partakes of the wisdom and charity of this great apostle , he will be studious of the same pious accommodation to persons and cir- cumstances . See 1 Cor . ch . Again : The example of those men who em- ploy PREFACE . xix.
... any one partakes of the wisdom and charity of this great apostle , he will be studious of the same pious accommodation to persons and cir- cumstances . See 1 Cor . ch . Again : The example of those men who em- ploy PREFACE . xix.
Side 3
... wisdom , who has never made any serious efforts to attain it ; to suppose , that the knowledge of God is with him original and in- nate , which to the ancient poet Simonides , in propor- tion as he urged his inquiries , seemed the more ...
... wisdom , who has never made any serious efforts to attain it ; to suppose , that the knowledge of God is with him original and in- nate , which to the ancient poet Simonides , in propor- tion as he urged his inquiries , seemed the more ...
Side 14
... wisdom and goodness ; of wisdom in the mechanical contrivance , and of goodness in the sup- ply it affords to our temporal necessities . This , how- ever , is a very partial view , and has a dangerous ten- dency to divert our attention ...
... wisdom and goodness ; of wisdom in the mechanical contrivance , and of goodness in the sup- ply it affords to our temporal necessities . This , how- ever , is a very partial view , and has a dangerous ten- dency to divert our attention ...
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