Rural Philosophy: Or, Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness : Chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the CountryA. Strahan, 1804 - 383 pages |
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... when separated from piety : a truth to which the experience of all ages has borne testimony , and which has lately been confirmed by a dreadful example . 1 always be endured even by those who on the whole -XX PREFACE .
... when separated from piety : a truth to which the experience of all ages has borne testimony , and which has lately been confirmed by a dreadful example . 1 always be endured even by those who on the whole -XX PREFACE .
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... experience , and deserves to be branded as the grossest enthusiasm . The first step to true wisdom is to feel the want of it , and the next is a willingness to bestow the pains which are necessary to obtain it ; without these previous ...
... experience , and deserves to be branded as the grossest enthusiasm . The first step to true wisdom is to feel the want of it , and the next is a willingness to bestow the pains which are necessary to obtain it ; without these previous ...
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... anxious retrospection on his past experience , from an impatient desire of present comfort , or to obtain evi- Isaiah , xxviii . 16 . dence of his spiritual safety ; which is in- deed 80 On the Knowledge of Ourselves . [ PART I.
... anxious retrospection on his past experience , from an impatient desire of present comfort , or to obtain evi- Isaiah , xxviii . 16 . dence of his spiritual safety ; which is in- deed 80 On the Knowledge of Ourselves . [ PART I.
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... experience , that a vast difference subsists between an ideal elevation of mind and a substantial principle of conduct , and that our fine no- tions and sentimental feelings are too sha- dowy and feeble to stand the shock of the ...
... experience , that a vast difference subsists between an ideal elevation of mind and a substantial principle of conduct , and that our fine no- tions and sentimental feelings are too sha- dowy and feeble to stand the shock of the ...
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... experience . Here then , as in the former instance , we allow the man of the world to bear away the palm without con- test ; he must suffer us , however , in what remains , to dispute his claim to superio- rity . II . The knowledge of ...
... experience . Here then , as in the former instance , we allow the man of the world to bear away the palm without con- test ; he must suffer us , however , in what remains , to dispute his claim to superio- rity . II . The knowledge of ...
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Page 169 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Page 336 - And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it ; but I found none.
Page 73 - And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
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 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 303 - To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy ! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss, All various Nature pressing on the heart : An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven.
Page 246 - The first night that I came hither I caught " so great a cold, with a defluxion of rheum, as " made me keep my chamber ten days. And, " two after, had such a bruise on my ribs with a " fall, that I am yet unable to move or turn my
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 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 366 - 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.