The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books

C. Dilly, 1794 - 544 pàgines

Of PRUDENCE	1

Queries on the Conftitution and Method in certain Places	3

Revelation given as a Part of our Trial and Difcipline Page 409	6

Of venting fingular Opinions	8

Of Drefs and the Circumftantials of Behaviour	24

Of PRUDENCE in Action	38

SECT III	44

Of Overtrading	50

Clearness of moral Subjects compared with fcientific	212

Certainty attainable in Morals as well as other Subjects	219

Certainty attainable by Senfation Intuition Deduction Tefli	227

That Virtue or Rectitude in a created Being is a Conformity	234

That we are equally at a Lofs about the effential Nature of our Page	245

SECT III	246

The most elevated Mind has the beft Afurances of its own Im	254

defirable That the Connection between the Conduct of moral Agents	263

Human Liberty of Agency established and Objections answered	273

Duty of the Wife and Learned and all who are poffeffed of	274

Abfurdity of Pride and Advantages of Humility	296

Of Anger	306

Of the Love of Life	312

Of the mutual Defires of the Sexes	319

SECT VII	326

Divine Intention in engaging us in fuch a Variety of Connections	356

Of placing out Youth intended for Buſineſs	391

Of the Guilt of wilfully oppofing or neglecting a Revelation	392

That there is nothing abfurd or incredible in fuppofing that	406

SECT II	431

Reflections on the Whole	453

Confiderations on fome Particulars in Revealed Religion Page	454

56	460

Of the Fallen Angels	470

SECT	476

Simplicity of the Narration an Argument for the Truth of	483

A view of fome of the most unquestionable Predictions of Holy	494

No fatisfactory Account to be given of the Prevalence	512

Títol	The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books, James Burgh
Autor	James Burgh
Editor	C. Dilly, 1794
Original de	Universitat de Harvard
Digitalitzat el	27 Nov. 2008
Nre. de pàgines	544 pàgines

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SECT V	60

Of Marriage and Directions for proceeding in a judicious	70

Of the bodily Infirmities of Children	82

Of providing Fortunes for Sons	89

SECT XVI	98

Of its being unworthy of the Divine Wifdom to have Recourfe	117

BOOK II	119

Human Knowledge fcanty as it is truly admirable	125

The Being and Attributes of God eſtabliſhed as the Foundation	130

Objection anfwered	132

SECT II	140

Various Inftructions for this purpoſe preſented to us by Nature	145

Of French and proper Books recommended	149

Of Experimental Philofophy and proper Books and Apparatus	155

Of the Human Mind and proper Books	169

Of the Newtonian Philofophy	179

Error in carrying this to Excefs Page	181

SECT VI	187

Of pursuing Studies inconfiftent with one another at the fame	198

Of Partial Reading	204