The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at HomeJ. Johnson, 1823 - 238 Seiten |
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... appearances . And this office I may , from ex- perience and prior trial , claim with as much justice and good intention , as one may warn another from venturing on ice , which he who warns , has just found too weak to bear his weight ...
... appearances . And this office I may , from ex- perience and prior trial , claim with as much justice and good intention , as one may warn another from venturing on ice , which he who warns , has just found too weak to bear his weight ...
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... appearance and voice seem fa- miliar to me , though how , I cannot tell : I can only try to account for the phenomenon , by supposing I have seen figures like them in the visions of the night , perhaps at a long interval before , and ...
... appearance and voice seem fa- miliar to me , though how , I cannot tell : I can only try to account for the phenomenon , by supposing I have seen figures like them in the visions of the night , perhaps at a long interval before , and ...
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... appearance the most gro- tesque and shocking : it was a lad of low , slight form , covered all over with a dust , black and offensive ; his hair , his clothes , every pore of his body , were absolutely saturated with its particles ; the ...
... appearance the most gro- tesque and shocking : it was a lad of low , slight form , covered all over with a dust , black and offensive ; his hair , his clothes , every pore of his body , were absolutely saturated with its particles ; the ...
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... appearance , so disgusting , so dreadful ? " - " The meaning , " said he , " is very simple , and easily explained ; in a word they are chimney sweepers . ' " And what's a chimney sweeper ? " I enquired . 999 " A chimney sweeper is a ...
... appearance , so disgusting , so dreadful ? " - " The meaning , " said he , " is very simple , and easily explained ; in a word they are chimney sweepers . ' " And what's a chimney sweeper ? " I enquired . 999 " A chimney sweeper is a ...
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... appearance and the wretches we have just seen . See how sleek he is ! no soot defiles his borrowed hair : above his beak he wears a hat , called Cleri- cal , ' observe its pent - house brim drawn up with nicest care , as curtains op'd ...
... appearance and the wretches we have just seen . See how sleek he is ! no soot defiles his borrowed hair : above his beak he wears a hat , called Cleri- cal , ' observe its pent - house brim drawn up with nicest care , as curtains op'd ...
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Seite 221 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Seite 160 - The man who resolutely divesting himself of habit and prejudice, of the false impressions imbibed from early childhood, resolves to know Truth, if haply she may be found, is sure to be assailed, threatened, mimicked, and insulted, with abuse the most pitiful and inane, with derision the most paltry, stupid, and futile, wholly unworthy of the exaltation to which human attainmentboasts to have arrived. 'His honesty is decried as presumption, his avowal of naked truth as sedition ; his exposure of existing...
Seite 162 - that reason suits neither you or me : Sully did not go to mass, and Sully was of the council.' ' Maurepas, in this answer, only caught at the ridicule of...