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 - Conduct of life - 544 pages

Of treating the Characters of abfent Perfons	6

Of Vifiting where there is no real Friendſhip	19

Of PRUDENCE in Action	38

SECT III	44

Of Overtrading	50

SECT V	60

Of Marriage and Directions for proceeding in a judicious	70

Of the bodily Infirmities of Children	82

All Evidence finally refolvable into Intuition	247

Proofs of the Immortality of the Soul and a future State from	254

The most elevated Mind has the beft Aljurances of its own	261

That Human Virtue confifts in the proper Application and	267

SECT V	273

Various Inftructions for this purpoſe 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

Of providing Fortunes for Sons	88

SECT XVI	98

Of placing out Youth intended for Buſineſs	103

8	114

BOOK II	119

Human Knowledge fcanty as it is truly admirable	125

Objection answered	132

SECT II	140

Queries on the Conflitution and Method in certain Places	143

Of French and proper Books recommended	149

Of Chronology and Rudiments of Hiftory	155

Great Advantages of the Study of Hiftory and Biography	163

Of Commerce and proper Books	169

Of the higher Parts of pure Mathematics and proper Books	179

Error in carrying this to Excefs Page	181

SECT VI	187

Of too confined Studies	198

Of Partial Reading	204

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 eftablished as the Foundation	228

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

Univerfal and regular Concurrence of all Parts of the Syftem	242

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

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 the Paffions of Envy Malice and Revenge	309

62	315

Of the mutual Defires of the Sexes	319

SECT	326

Of Negative Goodness Page	328

Of facial Duties and first Of the Love of our Country	342

Reciprocal Duties of Parents and Childrenof Spiritual Paftors	350

SECT VIII	356

Of the Duty of Prayer and Objections answered	372

Of Family Religion	379

SECT IX	385

BOOK IV	405

Confiderations on fome Particulars in Revealed Religion Page	454

Of the general Deluge	464

Of the Efficacy of his Death for the Reſtoration of Mankind	470

SECT IV	476

Simplicity of the Narration an Argument for the Truth of	483

Of Prophecy	496

No fatisfactory Account to be given of the Prevalence	512

PART	513

That the Chriftian Religion is not a pious Fraud fhewn	518

Selfexamination recommended to the Reader on the chief Points	532

Title	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 ...
Author	James Burgh
Publisher	C. Dilly, 1794
Original from	The British Library
Digitized	1 Apr 2014
Length	544 pages

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