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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... enjoyment of ex- istence , as an incident inseparable from his being ; and that instinctively he loves pleasure rather than pain ; are positions too self - evidently absurd to be once named among us , except as a joke : they are insults ...
... enjoyment of ex- istence , as an incident inseparable from his being ; and that instinctively he loves pleasure rather than pain ; are positions too self - evidently absurd to be once named among us , except as a joke : they are insults ...
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... enjoyment , have not in any thing like sufficiency ? " — " But , " said I , " it was al- ways told me , that inequality and gradation were the bases of all society : that unequal dis- tribution followed man considered as a grega- rious ...
... enjoyment , have not in any thing like sufficiency ? " — " But , " said I , " it was al- ways told me , that inequality and gradation were the bases of all society : that unequal dis- tribution followed man considered as a grega- rious ...
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... enjoyment ; will they not attain their wishes to - morrow , if not to - day , or next week , next month , next year , at least at some indefinite period , before the termination of their career of existence ? " - " No , " said L- " they ...
... enjoyment ; will they not attain their wishes to - morrow , if not to - day , or next week , next month , next year , at least at some indefinite period , before the termination of their career of existence ? " - " No , " said L- " they ...
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... enjoyment , and who therefore ought to be kept in proper subordi- nation . If , stung to madness , they endea- voured to shake off the yoke by open violence , they were overpowered by the myrmidons of official power and dignity , who ...
... enjoyment , and who therefore ought to be kept in proper subordi- nation . If , stung to madness , they endea- voured to shake off the yoke by open violence , they were overpowered by the myrmidons of official power and dignity , who ...
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... enjoyment , why will you not be vir- tuous and happy , as you may , by conforming to my simple and easy precepts ? Why will you so wantonly disobey the commands issued to every one of you by my secret dictation ? Why will you madly ...
... enjoyment , why will you not be vir- tuous and happy , as you may , by conforming to my simple and easy precepts ? Why will you so wantonly disobey the commands issued to every one of you by my secret dictation ? Why will you madly ...
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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...