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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Side v
... instance , waving the critique in- tended , I rather chose to pursue the train of my own reflections . } Zinimermann was undoubtedly a writer of singular endowments ; he possessed great mental sensibility , and a cast of ima gination ...
... instance , waving the critique in- tended , I rather chose to pursue the train of my own reflections . } Zinimermann was undoubtedly a writer of singular endowments ; he possessed great mental sensibility , and a cast of ima gination ...
Side xv
... instance , I must beg a truce with prejudice , or , to use a softer language , I would desire such persons Etɛxew , to suspend , agreeably to the true philosophic character , and not to censure before they have fairly considered what ...
... instance , I must beg a truce with prejudice , or , to use a softer language , I would desire such persons Etɛxew , to suspend , agreeably to the true philosophic character , and not to censure before they have fairly considered what ...
Side xxiii
... instance in the word regenerate , which some years ago ( about the time when the above was written ) strangely found its way into our ordinary dis- course ; so that instead of plain reformation we heard of nothing but regeneration ; and ...
... instance in the word regenerate , which some years ago ( about the time when the above was written ) strangely found its way into our ordinary dis- course ; so that instead of plain reformation we heard of nothing but regeneration ; and ...
Side 15
... instances of hu- man distress which are not attended with many circumstances of alleviation . And lastly , whatever be the lot of man , we see him borne up by an insuppressible hope , which affords a happy presumption , that , however ...
... instances of hu- man distress which are not attended with many circumstances of alleviation . And lastly , whatever be the lot of man , we see him borne up by an insuppressible hope , which affords a happy presumption , that , however ...
Side 16
... instances , which by impressing a conviction of the nature and consequences of sin , were suited to obstruct its progress . The instances I have here in view are , the expulsion of man from paradise ; the labour and toil to which he was ...
... instances , which by impressing a conviction of the nature and consequences of sin , were suited to obstruct its progress . The instances I have here in view are , the expulsion of man from paradise ; the labour and toil to which he was ...
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