Rural Philosophy: Or, Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness : Chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the CountryA. Strahan, 1804 - 383 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة x
... society , which are now arrived at such a pitch of luxurious refinement , that to come within the verge of their influence is to lose all power of return to rural simpli- city ; unless the mind is happily forti- fied against the ...
... society , which are now arrived at such a pitch of luxurious refinement , that to come within the verge of their influence is to lose all power of return to rural simpli- city ; unless the mind is happily forti- fied against the ...
الصفحة xvii
... society , to set the child against his parent , and the subject against his prince , and thus to abandon mankind to atheism and anarchy . It is against this imposture under the guise of philosophy , that I would earnestly protest ; and ...
... society , to set the child against his parent , and the subject against his prince , and thus to abandon mankind to atheism and anarchy . It is against this imposture under the guise of philosophy , that I would earnestly protest ; and ...
الصفحة xxiii
... to regenerate the laws , constitutions , opinions , and manners of society became the magic language which dwelt upon the lips of every modern reformado . the use of any lawful means to promote the spiritual a 4 PREFACE . xxiii.
... to regenerate the laws , constitutions , opinions , and manners of society became the magic language which dwelt upon the lips of every modern reformado . the use of any lawful means to promote the spiritual a 4 PREFACE . xxiii.
الصفحة 13
... society that renders him wicked . " ( Vol . ii . p . 134. ) Or as he elsewhere tells us , that all our vices are " the necessary results of our political institutions . ” ( Vol . vi . p . 65 , 66. ) Lastly , from an Indian Paria he has ...
... society that renders him wicked . " ( Vol . ii . p . 134. ) Or as he elsewhere tells us , that all our vices are " the necessary results of our political institutions . ” ( Vol . vi . p . 65 , 66. ) Lastly , from an Indian Paria he has ...
الصفحة 55
... society . Nor is it less expedient to secure certain intervals of solitude , in order to determine our degree of actual conformity to the rule of righteousness when known , than to as- certain the rule itself . In the hurry of life ...
... society . Nor is it less expedient to secure certain intervals of solitude , in order to determine our degree of actual conformity to the rule of righteousness when known , than to as- certain the rule itself . In the hurry of life ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.