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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... founded on hereditary error . I had viewed also , with surprise , the vast accession lately made to the hordes who first came among us , by the numerous bands of their countrymen who were incessantly pouring into our wilds , usurping ...
... founded on hereditary error . I had viewed also , with surprise , the vast accession lately made to the hordes who first came among us , by the numerous bands of their countrymen who were incessantly pouring into our wilds , usurping ...
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... founded on error , has no con- nexion with Nature and Reason , and is conse- quently hollow and artificial : and , lastly , that being established on positions purely local and temporary , it now totters to its base before the mighty ...
... founded on error , has no con- nexion with Nature and Reason , and is conse- quently hollow and artificial : and , lastly , that being established on positions purely local and temporary , it now totters to its base before the mighty ...
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... founded on inequality , as a pri- mordial base . But if inequality is found to be the parent of ignorance , and ignorance of unhappiness , why is inequality tolerated ? now we are come " Ah ! " said L- , 66 to it at last , now we shall ...
... founded on inequality , as a pri- mordial base . But if inequality is found to be the parent of ignorance , and ignorance of unhappiness , why is inequality tolerated ? now we are come " Ah ! " said L- , 66 to it at last , now we shall ...
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... founded on abstract principles of truth and right reason ; and assuming as incontrovertible the existence of misery and want in the mass of mankind , even in their best state of society ; and , be it known to you the latter is asserted ...
... founded on abstract principles of truth and right reason ; and assuming as incontrovertible the existence of misery and want in the mass of mankind , even in their best state of society ; and , be it known to you the latter is asserted ...
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... , must be a hoax ; seeing , they make Jupiter himself subject to the Parcæ , who spin the threads of existence : surely our Mythology must be founded on error and contradiction , and so will some THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 65.
... , must be a hoax ; seeing , they make Jupiter himself subject to the Parcæ , who spin the threads of existence : surely our Mythology must be founded on error and contradiction , and so will some THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 65.
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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...