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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... fool and madman first , and perhaps torn in pieces by the rabble , to boot : what may we not then hope , when it is since proved , that such sug- gestions would have been founded on truth ? and when an instrument has since been dis ...
... fool and madman first , and perhaps torn in pieces by the rabble , to boot : what may we not then hope , when it is since proved , that such sug- gestions would have been founded on truth ? and when an instrument has since been dis ...
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... fool . ” To which we will tack a postscript : " whatever will not bear the examination of reason without shrinking , is in itself unreasonable . " LETTER XI . AFTER this dissertation , I went to THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 71.
... fool . ” To which we will tack a postscript : " whatever will not bear the examination of reason without shrinking , is in itself unreasonable . " LETTER XI . AFTER this dissertation , I went to THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 71.
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... fool- ishly suffering our bodies and minds to be enslaved , our feelings to be infuriated to mad- ness more envenomed than the serpent , are set in array to shed each other's blood in the worst of causes , or for none , at the ...
... fool- ishly suffering our bodies and minds to be enslaved , our feelings to be infuriated to mad- ness more envenomed than the serpent , are set in array to shed each other's blood in the worst of causes , or for none , at the ...
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... fool enough to bestride a minaret , by way of playing at weathercocks ; to clap his bottom on a pin- nacle of a Turkish Mosque , and bellow in the ears of the disciples of the Koran , ' I assert that Mahomet was an impostor , the ...
... fool enough to bestride a minaret , by way of playing at weathercocks ; to clap his bottom on a pin- nacle of a Turkish Mosque , and bellow in the ears of the disciples of the Koran , ' I assert that Mahomet was an impostor , the ...
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... fool that I have been ! where am I , whither shall I turn ? ' And when once he is ingenuous enough to confess his error , to say , ' God is just to man , but man is unjust to himself , let us see what we must do to re- gain the ...
... fool that I have been ! where am I , whither shall I turn ? ' And when once he is ingenuous enough to confess his error , to say , ' God is just to man , but man is unjust to himself , let us see what we must do to re- gain the ...
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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...