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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... 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 men , should be so ...
... 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 men , should be so ...
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... eternity will be but as a drop of water in the ocean , lie pros- trate in her own dust , and silent as the desert . ' " " " Impossible ! " said I : " from what causes will such mighty changes spring ? What ade- quate catastrophe will ...
... eternity will be but as a drop of water in the ocean , lie pros- trate in her own dust , and silent as the desert . ' " " " Impossible ! " said I : " from what causes will such mighty changes spring ? What ade- quate catastrophe will ...
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... by some new power at present unknown , generated from their own multitudes of action and re - action ? Some assert the universe has existed in some shape from all eternity , of necessity , because THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 61.
... by some new power at present unknown , generated from their own multitudes of action and re - action ? Some assert the universe has existed in some shape from all eternity , of necessity , because THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 61.
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... eternity , of necessity , because it could not be otherwise : that as every thing must exist somehow , if it does exist ; all forms are necessitous modes . I confess my own mind refuses to grapple with the notion of existence from all ...
... eternity , of necessity , because it could not be otherwise : that as every thing must exist somehow , if it does exist ; all forms are necessitous modes . I confess my own mind refuses to grapple with the notion of existence from all ...
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... be particularly well damned ever since , and to all eternity . And further , that his ad- herents , that is , the Protestant or reformed church , whereof as a national edifice , this Bishop THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 103.
... be particularly well damned ever since , and to all eternity . And further , that his ad- herents , that is , the Protestant or reformed church , whereof as a national edifice , this Bishop THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 103.
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acquire action animal artificial assert Atheist become believe blood cause certainly chimney sweeper civil clothing common conscience consequence Deism Deist dreadful earth emotion endeavour enjoyment enquiry equality equipoise eternity evil existence eyes faculties fancy father fear feeling fool founded free agency fresh genus Gil Blas give hand happiness heal-all hear heart hope human idea ignorance instance intellect knowledge labour latter laws ledge listen look luxuries marriage Maurepas mean ment mental middle men mind misery mode nation natural justice natural law Nature necessity never observe once pain Paradise Lost perhaps persons philanthropy pleasure possession present principles proof reason receive revelation sense slavery sort soul sounds speak species surface tell term thee Theocracy things thou thought timation tion true truth tural turn unnatural virtue Whigs
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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...