Rural Philosophy: Or, Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness : Chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the CountryA. Strahan, 1804 - 383 |
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Strona iii
... kind of conspiracy against itself : which is here remarked , in order to account for a few passages which might be thought less ap- plicable at present , when so many hopeful symptoms appear of a return to social order and Christian ...
... kind of conspiracy against itself : which is here remarked , in order to account for a few passages which might be thought less ap- plicable at present , when so many hopeful symptoms appear of a return to social order and Christian ...
Strona xiii
... kind of literary profaneness , or at least with a degree of ignorant barbarism . As I have no mind to incur any man's censure if I can fairly avoid it , I would intreat such a literato to let his indignation abate before he pass a ...
... kind of literary profaneness , or at least with a degree of ignorant barbarism . As I have no mind to incur any man's censure if I can fairly avoid it , I would intreat such a literato to let his indignation abate before he pass a ...
Strona xxiv
... kind , receives no countenance either from reason or revelation , or from the conduct of the best and wisest men . And when to this we add the zeal and diligence with which bad men ( and eminently at the present period ) practise every ...
... kind , receives no countenance either from reason or revelation , or from the conduct of the best and wisest men . And when to this we add the zeal and diligence with which bad men ( and eminently at the present period ) practise every ...
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... kind , the combination produces pleasure , beauty and harmony . I call the instant and the point of their union harmonic expression . This is the only principle which I have been able to perceive in nature . ” ( Vol . ii . p . 279 ...
... kind , the combination produces pleasure , beauty and harmony . I call the instant and the point of their union harmonic expression . This is the only principle which I have been able to perceive in nature . ” ( Vol . ii . p . 279 ...
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... kind as retaining the purity of their first paradisiacal state , we shall not be obliged to account why the earth they inhabit is not in all points entirely accommodated to their present convenience ; why they are in danger from noxious ...
... kind as retaining the purity of their first paradisiacal state , we shall not be obliged to account why the earth they inhabit is not in all points entirely accommodated to their present convenience ; why they are in danger from noxious ...
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Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.