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

C. Dilly, 1794 - 544 páginas

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Of PRUDENCE	1

Of treating the Characters of abfent Perfons	6

Of venting fingular Opinions	8

Of Swearing and Obscenity	20

Of Dress and the Circumftantials of Behaviour	24

Of PRUDENCE in Action	38

SECT III	44

SECT IV	50

Human Liberty of Agency established and Objections answered	271

SECT IV	273

Various Inftructions for this purpofe prefented to us by Nature	274

Difficulties in the Divine Oeconomy of the moral World	280

That the State we find ourselves in is very proper for a State	288

Difficulties to be expected and even to be looked upon as a Beauty	289

Abfurdity of Pride and Advantages of Humility	296

Of the Paffion of Love or Defire its proper Objects and	302

Of Prudence in cafe of being obliged to ftop Payments	56

SECT V	60

Of Duels	62

Of Marriage and Directions for proceeding in a judicious	69

Of the bodily Infirmities of Children	78

Of the bodily Infirmities of Children	82

Of choofing Employments for Sons according to their various	86

Of the Dignity of Female Life prudentially confidered	94

8	114

BOOK II	119

Human Knowledge fcanty as it is truly admirable	125

Objection anfwered	132

Intention and Method of Education in Human Learning	140

Queries on the Conftitution and Method in certain Places	143

Plan of Education from fix Years of Age to the finishing of	148

Of French and proper Books recommended	149

Of giving them a Tincture of the Principles of Criticiſm	153

Of Dancing Fencing and other ornamental Accomplishments	156

Great Advantages of the Study of History and Biography	165

Of Ethics and proper Books	171

Of the higher Parts of pure Mathematics and proper Books	179

Error in carrying this to Excefs Page	181

SECT VI	187

Cautions against the common Errors in Study and firft	196

Of knowing the Extent of ones natural Abilities	201

Of Unfteadiness in Opinion	206

Clearness of moral Subjects compared with ſcientific	212

Certainty attainable in Morals as well as other Subjects	219

Certainty attainable by Senfation Intuition Deduction Tefli	226

The Being and Attributes of God established as the Foundation	227

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

Univerfal and regular Concurrence of all Parts of the Syftem	242

The animal irrational Natures how brought to perform their	245

That we are equally at a Lofs about the effential Nature of	246

Proofs of the Immortality of the Soul taken firft from its Nature	250

The most elevated Mind has the beſt Aurances of its own	261

That the Connection between the Conduct of moral Agents	263

11	267

24	304

Of Anger	306

222222	307

Of the Paffions of Envy Malice and Revenge	309

Of Sympathy	311

Of the mutual Defires of the Sexes	319

SECT VII	326

Of Negative Goodness Page	328

Of Justice and Injustice with respect to our Neighbours Pro	342

in Conuerfation	343

Reciprocal Duties of Parents and Children of Spiritual Paftors	350

Duty to Benefactors and Enemies	354

Useful Moral Reflections on the Divine Attributes	360

Of the Duty of Prayer and Objections answered	372

Of Family Religion	379

Amazing Stupidity of Numbers of Mankind who altogether	384

BOOK IV	405

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

Of the Incapacity of mere Human Reafon in religious Matters	416

Difficulties to be expected in a Revelation from God	423

SECT II	431

Reflections on the Whole	453

Confiderations on fome Particulars in Revealed Religion Page	454

The Difficulties relating to the Effects of the Fall upon	461

Of the Incarnation and Humiliation of Chrift	468

Of the future general Judgment	474

Requifites for thoroughly examining the various Kinds of Evi	478

Simplicity of the Narration an Argument for the Truth of	483

Of placing out Youth intended for Business	487

of Prophecy 496	487

Of the Difficulties of the Dæmoniacs	491

A view of fome of the most unquestionable Predictions of Holy	497

63	507

No fatisfactory Account to be given of the Prevalence	512

That the Chriftian Religion is not a pious Fraud fhewn	518

The Character and Conduct of Christ himself confidered more	522

Selfexamination recommended to the Reader on the chief Points	532

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Título	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
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Michigan
Digitalizado	22 Feb. 2006
Largo	544 páginas

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