Rural Philosophy: Or, Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness : Chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the CountryA. Strahan, 1804 - 383 sider |
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... On Pelion , thrice to heave they all essay'd Ossa , and thrice on Ossa's tow'ring head To roll Olympus up with all his shade : VIRGIL . } To check such a presumption , it might be sufficient 6 [ PART I. On the Knowledge of God .
... On Pelion , thrice to heave they all essay'd Ossa , and thrice on Ossa's tow'ring head To roll Olympus up with all his shade : VIRGIL . } To check such a presumption , it might be sufficient 6 [ PART I. On the Knowledge of God .
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... Virgil , and in Ovid ; by all of whom it is expressly taught , that a great change has passed upon nature ; and evidently supposed , that this change took place as a pu- nishment of human degeneracy . The following passages from Ovid ...
... Virgil , and in Ovid ; by all of whom it is expressly taught , that a great change has passed upon nature ; and evidently supposed , that this change took place as a pu- nishment of human degeneracy . The following passages from Ovid ...
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... Virgil , I shall fortify it by two great authorities , the one Christian and the other pagan , which no man who wishes to preserve his own character for taste and good sense , will be forward to dispute . The first is that of a most ...
... Virgil , I shall fortify it by two great authorities , the one Christian and the other pagan , which no man who wishes to preserve his own character for taste and good sense , will be forward to dispute . The first is that of a most ...
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... Virgil and Horace might serve to evince the necessity of revelation , and to set off , as a foil , the doctrines and morality of the gospel . Further , it may be observed , that what- ever advantages may be supposed to arise from the ...
... Virgil and Horace might serve to evince the necessity of revelation , and to set off , as a foil , the doctrines and morality of the gospel . Further , it may be observed , that what- ever advantages may be supposed to arise from the ...
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... Virgil and Cicero may serve as a specimen : Thrice happy , if his happiness he knows , The country swain , on whom kind heav'n bestows At home all riches that wise nature needs , Whom the just earth with easy plenty feeds . Free from th ...
... Virgil and Cicero may serve as a specimen : Thrice happy , if his happiness he knows , The country swain , on whom kind heav'n bestows At home all riches that wise nature needs , Whom the just earth with easy plenty feeds . Free from th ...
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