Rural Philosophy: Or, Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness : Chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the CountryA. Strahan, 1804 - 383 páginas |
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... genius or elegance : yet we still continue to go down to the Philistines , to sharpen every one his share , and his coulter , and his axe , and his mattock , as if there was no smith in Israel * . I would next address myself to such as ...
... genius or elegance : yet we still continue to go down to the Philistines , to sharpen every one his share , and his coulter , and his axe , and his mattock , as if there was no smith in Israel * . I would next address myself to such as ...
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... genius . " When two contraries ( he observes ) come to be blended , of whatever kind , the combination produces pleasure , beauty and harmony . I call the instant and the point of their union harmonic expression . This is the only ...
... genius . " When two contraries ( he observes ) come to be blended , of whatever kind , the combination produces pleasure , beauty and harmony . I call the instant and the point of their union harmonic expression . This is the only ...
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... genius broke forth , probably no less to the suprise of himself than of others * . Whether it had been better on his own account , as well as for his country , had he never emerged from his original obscurity , and been awakened to a ...
... genius broke forth , probably no less to the suprise of himself than of others * . Whether it had been better on his own account , as well as for his country , had he never emerged from his original obscurity , and been awakened to a ...
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... genius ; it forms the basis , according to the part which predominates , of a general , a states- man , a poet , or a philosopher ; and with- out it no high degree of excellence , in any department of life , contemplative or ac- tive ...
... genius ; it forms the basis , according to the part which predominates , of a general , a states- man , a poet , or a philosopher ; and with- out it no high degree of excellence , in any department of life , contemplative or ac- tive ...
Página 95
... genius , the manners and usages which have cha- racterized different ages , and which pre- sent to a philosophic mind an object far more interesting than wars and politics , he may consult the particular histories and memoirs , or other ...
... genius , the manners and usages which have cha- racterized different ages , and which pre- sent to a philosophic mind an object far more interesting than wars and politics , he may consult the particular histories and memoirs , or other ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.