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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... AT HOME . BY HENRY HORNE , JUN . " FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS . " YORK LONDON : J. Johnson , Typ . Brook Street , Holborn SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS . 1823 . PUBLIC LIBRARY 730454 R ACTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
... AT HOME . BY HENRY HORNE , JUN . " FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS . " YORK LONDON : J. Johnson , Typ . Brook Street , Holborn SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS . 1823 . PUBLIC LIBRARY 730454 R ACTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
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... facts are Right or Wrong , ought or ought not to be , from their concordance , or discordance with that voice that if in unison they constitute Good , or Virtue ; if in dissonance , Evil , or Vice . " It has been said this standard is ...
... facts are Right or Wrong , ought or ought not to be , from their concordance , or discordance with that voice that if in unison they constitute Good , or Virtue ; if in dissonance , Evil , or Vice . " It has been said this standard is ...
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... fact , and a fact admit- ting easy explanation . If the many presume to shew their teeth , the few extract them in- stanter , by way of timely preventive : Be quiet , ' say they , waving off the crowd ; ' thus it has always been , and ...
... fact , and a fact admit- ting easy explanation . If the many presume to shew their teeth , the few extract them in- stanter , by way of timely preventive : Be quiet , ' say they , waving off the crowd ; ' thus it has always been , and ...
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... facts prove the conjecture right , that he would in a state of social com- pact dwell on or near the spots where he found food indigenous , or where by the aid of art discovered by observation , I mean cultivation , he could most easily ...
... facts prove the conjecture right , that he would in a state of social com- pact dwell on or near the spots where he found food indigenous , or where by the aid of art discovered by observation , I mean cultivation , he could most easily ...
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... facts become varied and sup- planted ; mistaken narration frequently mis- taken , without fraudulent intention , from ... fact , trivial or important , which shall happen in our lifetime to - night , would , in the lapse of only twenty ...
... facts become varied and sup- planted ; mistaken narration frequently mis- taken , without fraudulent intention , from ... fact , trivial or important , which shall happen in our lifetime to - night , would , in the lapse of only twenty ...
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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...