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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... civil hive , will buz such slanderous imputations ; but feels secure in the es- timation of his real friends , against such impotent attempts at a sting . Perhaps the declaration is super- fluous , but he makes ii PREFACE .
... civil hive , will buz such slanderous imputations ; but feels secure in the es- timation of his real friends , against such impotent attempts at a sting . Perhaps the declaration is super- fluous , but he makes ii PREFACE .
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... civil compact : " I am so , certainly , " he replied : " as a birthright I in- herit protection from , and am amenable to her laws ; and while within the pale of her do- minion , am one of her community : and from the protecting spirit ...
... civil compact : " I am so , certainly , " he replied : " as a birthright I in- herit protection from , and am amenable to her laws ; and while within the pale of her do- minion , am one of her community : and from the protecting spirit ...
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... civil society has been hitherto framed ; it will be necessary to go back a good way , and notice with as much perspicuity as the subject will admit , the great changes to which our globe has been exposed . I shall not attempt to ...
... civil society has been hitherto framed ; it will be necessary to go back a good way , and notice with as much perspicuity as the subject will admit , the great changes to which our globe has been exposed . I shall not attempt to ...
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... civil wars ensued , and by following the rules of division before mentioned , on the issue of the contest the earth's surface was more unevenly apportioned than before . And matters were carried still farther ; for now the strongest ...
... civil wars ensued , and by following the rules of division before mentioned , on the issue of the contest the earth's surface was more unevenly apportioned than before . And matters were carried still farther ; for now the strongest ...
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... civil governments , now become numerous , also from their birth partook of their parents ' disabilities , and were like them in bondage : the number of these was multiplied exceed- ingly in every succeeding generation . " And hitherto ...
... civil governments , now become numerous , also from their birth partook of their parents ' disabilities , and were like them in bondage : the number of these was multiplied exceed- ingly in every succeeding generation . " And hitherto ...
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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...