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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... continue to be so to all eternity . " " I begin to perceive , ” said I , " that I have yet much to learn : I find I know compara- tively nothing ; and yet , after all , I cannot see what reason you have to complain ; why you , of all ...
... continue to be so to all eternity . " " I begin to perceive , ” said I , " that I have yet much to learn : I find I know compara- tively nothing ; and yet , after all , I cannot see what reason you have to complain ; why you , of all ...
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... sheer ignorance , or because , knowing better , they wished the present system to continue ? I hope to convince you shortly , how by far the greater portion of mankind glide down the stream of existence after 16 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... sheer ignorance , or because , knowing better , they wished the present system to continue ? I hope to convince you shortly , how by far the greater portion of mankind glide down the stream of existence after 16 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... continue the conversation on this topic . " It is indeed , " said L , " it is like every other function of Nature , wonderful and beau- tiful : I own , I delight in looking at a person stretched in refreshing slumber . Did you never ...
... continue the conversation on this topic . " It is indeed , " said L , " it is like every other function of Nature , wonderful and beau- tiful : I own , I delight in looking at a person stretched in refreshing slumber . Did you never ...
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... continue in exclusive possession of the cattle over which he claimed ownership , and which were also increasing daily , there would cease to be room for all . And the art of tillage being forgot or unknown , that if every man gathered ...
... continue in exclusive possession of the cattle over which he claimed ownership , and which were also increasing daily , there would cease to be room for all . And the art of tillage being forgot or unknown , that if every man gathered ...
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... continue to pursue the phantom which mocks his grasp ? Why will he seek happiness where long and sad experience teaches him it is not to be found ? Why will he not turn to the pure enjoyments of his being , to his pe- culiar enjoyments ...
... continue to pursue the phantom which mocks his grasp ? Why will he seek happiness where long and sad experience teaches him it is not to be found ? Why will he not turn to the pure enjoyments of his being , to his pe- culiar enjoyments ...
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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...