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
... relations , and thence to deduce the laws of moral obligation ; and to have deserted these grounds for the sake of a theory which leaves every one to resolve his duty into his feelings , would have been thought at best extremely ...
... relations , and thence to deduce the laws of moral obligation ; and to have deserted these grounds for the sake of a theory which leaves every one to resolve his duty into his feelings , would have been thought at best extremely ...
Side viii
... relations , than for the man of sentiment , who mis- takes the suggestions of fancy , and the impulses of inordinate passion , for the pure dictates of uncorrupted nature ; and whose boasted philanthropy generally ter- minates in empty ...
... relations , than for the man of sentiment , who mis- takes the suggestions of fancy , and the impulses of inordinate passion , for the pure dictates of uncorrupted nature ; and whose boasted philanthropy generally ter- minates in empty ...
Side xxv
... which was , to consider human learning simply in it's relation to vir- tue and happiness . In treating of the knowledge of God , I have waved all merely metaphysical disqui- sition , and confined myself to that view of the PREFACE . XXV.
... which was , to consider human learning simply in it's relation to vir- tue and happiness . In treating of the knowledge of God , I have waved all merely metaphysical disqui- sition , and confined myself to that view of the PREFACE . XXV.
Side xxvi
... relation of a holy and righteous ruler , and gracious benefactor , is put within the reach of our discovery ; and , to those who are brought to a proper sense of their moral situation , is a knowledge both cheering and salutary , And I ...
... relation of a holy and righteous ruler , and gracious benefactor , is put within the reach of our discovery ; and , to those who are brought to a proper sense of their moral situation , is a knowledge both cheering and salutary , And I ...
Side 18
... relation to God as a benign Creator only , of the treatment we receive in the course of his providence ? Should he sug- gest as a solution of this difficulty , as he probably may , that it is for our trial , for the exercise and ...
... relation to God as a benign Creator only , of the treatment we receive in the course of his providence ? Should he sug- gest as a solution of this difficulty , as he probably may , that it is for our trial , for the exercise and ...
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Side 335 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Side 164 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Side 190 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die : and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain : But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Side 168 - My good Child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the Commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace ; which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer.
Side 145 - When I consider, what ado is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many years are spent in it, and what a noise and business it makes to no purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking that the parents of children still live in fear of the school-master's rod, which they look on as the only instrument of education; as a language or two to be its whole business.
Side 221 - For who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Side 287 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Side 364 - I do confess, since I was of any understanding, my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done; and in absence are many errors which I do willingly acknowledge; and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest; that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes; for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind.
Side 60 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Side 230 - Who is David ? and who is the son of Jesse ? there be many servants nowa-days that break away every man from his master. Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be ? 12.