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 pages |
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... instance , waving the critique in- tended , I rather chose to pursue the train of my own reflections . Zimmermann 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 . Zimmermann was undoubtedly a writer of singular endowments ; he possessed great mental sensibility , and a cast of ima- gination ...
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... instance , I must beg a truce with prejudice , or , to use a softer language , I would desire such persons ETTEXELV , 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 ETTEXELV , to suspend , agreeably to the true philosophic character , and not to censure before they have fairly considered what ...
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... 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 ...
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... instance , is born such , and not produced by art or study , is an old notion , whose truth it is not worth the while to dispute , as it is of little consequence whe- ther it be true or false . But for a man to imagine himself in ...
... instance , is born such , and not produced by art or study , is an old notion , whose truth it is not worth the while to dispute , as it is of little consequence whe- ther it be true or false . But for a man to imagine himself in ...
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... instances of human dis- tress 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 , how- ever ...
... instances of human dis- tress 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 , how- ever ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.