Rural Philosophy: or, Reflections on knowledge, virtue, and happiness; chiefly in reference to a life of retirement in the countryLongman & Rees, 1803 - 356 páginas |
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Página xiii
... learning . This , I know , is an idol to which many , even in the present philosophical age , bow down and pay their worship ; and whoever refuses to unite in the same homage is in danger of being taxed , by some one or other , with a ...
... learning . This , I know , is an idol to which many , even in the present philosophical age , bow down and pay their worship ; and whoever refuses to unite in the same homage is in danger of being taxed , by some one or other , with a ...
Página xxiv
... learning simply in its 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 subject which to us is most important . To ...
... learning simply in its 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 subject which to us is most important . To ...
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... learning in the sixteenth century , have been crowned with remark- able success . By the help of anatomical dissections , with other experiments and ob- servations , he has acquired a more critical knowledge of the principal parts and ...
... learning in the sixteenth century , have been crowned with remark- able success . By the help of anatomical dissections , with other experiments and ob- servations , he has acquired a more critical knowledge of the principal parts and ...
Página 63
... learning , direct their studies to this important purpose ; a neglect which will appear the less excusable , when it is considered how much help is afforded to this enquiry in many excellent works that have been published on the truth ...
... learning , direct their studies to this important purpose ; a neglect which will appear the less excusable , when it is considered how much help is afforded to this enquiry in many excellent works that have been published on the truth ...
Página 111
... fashion in what is called learning , as in other things , and which often displays itself in a manner no less exclusive and tyrannical . By a like sympathetic power it is that opinions of SECT . I. ] Retirement a Refuge to Virtue . 111.
... fashion in what is called learning , as in other things , and which often displays itself in a manner no less exclusive and tyrannical . By a like sympathetic power it is that opinions of SECT . I. ] Retirement a Refuge to Virtue . 111.
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Rural Philosophy: Or, Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness ... Ely Bates Vista completa - 1807 |
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