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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... proceeds upon other principles ; its foundation is , I trust , so firmly laid in reason and revelation , in the knowledge of God , of ourselves , and of the world , as to be entirely adequate to bear up the solid superstructure of vir ...
... proceeds upon other principles ; its foundation is , I trust , so firmly laid in reason and revelation , in the knowledge of God , of ourselves , and of the world , as to be entirely adequate to bear up the solid superstructure of vir ...
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... proceed , in his ufual man- ner , to amuse himself with the effects , with- out prosecuting his enquiries to their just issue in the knowledge and adoration of the first caufe ; if he is a man of activity , he will betake himself to his ...
... proceed , in his ufual man- ner , to amuse himself with the effects , with- out prosecuting his enquiries to their just issue in the knowledge and adoration of the first caufe ; if he is a man of activity , he will betake himself to his ...
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... proceed to the enquiry now before us , it is proper to apprize the reader , that it is not by dint of reason only , and by heaping one argument upon ano- ther , that we expect to climb to heaven , and there to pry into the divine nature ...
... proceed to the enquiry now before us , it is proper to apprize the reader , that it is not by dint of reason only , and by heaping one argument upon ano- ther , that we expect to climb to heaven , and there to pry into the divine nature ...
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... proceeds , and which is well suited to be wrought upon by a lively and fanciful genius . " When two contraries ( he observes ) come to be blended , of whatever kind , the combination produces pleasure , beauty and harmony . I call the ...
... proceeds , and which is well suited to be wrought upon by a lively and fanciful genius . " When two contraries ( he observes ) come to be blended , of whatever kind , the combination produces pleasure , beauty and harmony . I call the ...
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... proceeds to demand with an air of confidence , " What work of science displays a more sublime theo- logy , inculcates a purer morality , or breathes a more ardent or more expansive philanthropy ? " ( Vol . i . Pref . ) This high - flown ...
... proceeds to demand with an air of confidence , " What work of science displays a more sublime theo- logy , inculcates a purer morality , or breathes a more ardent or more expansive philanthropy ? " ( Vol . i . Pref . ) This high - flown ...
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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.