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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... feelings , so , by the exercise of this same reasoning faculty , he is enabled to adopt or reject with sufficient ... feeling is easily defined , by means of a simple division of its components . Let us first separate it into two ...
... feelings , so , by the exercise of this same reasoning faculty , he is enabled to adopt or reject with sufficient ... feeling is easily defined , by means of a simple division of its components . Let us first separate it into two ...
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... feelings easily enough ; I have often felt the same , but with less intenseness : I often see places and persons , and converse with those whose appearance and voice seem fa- miliar to me , though how , I cannot tell : I can only try to ...
... feelings easily enough ; I have often felt the same , but with less intenseness : I often see places and persons , and converse with those whose appearance and voice seem fa- miliar to me , though how , I cannot tell : I can only try to ...
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... feeling the same wants and desires only that he does when fresh from the hand of Nature ; when he is guided by mere ... feelings of brute instinct , have never been directed to the cultivation of that knowledge , which the brute from his ...
... feeling the same wants and desires only that he does when fresh from the hand of Nature ; when he is guided by mere ... feelings of brute instinct , have never been directed to the cultivation of that knowledge , which the brute from his ...
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... feelings of honest pride , the wide difference in the routes of Ignorance , attended by Cunning and Fanaticism ; and of Science , supported by Candour and love of Truth . Ignorance , tied to forms and prejudices , flounders on through ...
... feelings of honest pride , the wide difference in the routes of Ignorance , attended by Cunning and Fanaticism ; and of Science , supported by Candour and love of Truth . Ignorance , tied to forms and prejudices , flounders on through ...
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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...