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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... hand of brother- hood ; their children are like those of the old time , and will deceive thee : our Fathers were too sparing of the tomahawk : had they not been so , we , their descendants , should not be at this day loaded with the ...
... hand of brother- hood ; their children are like those of the old time , and will deceive thee : our Fathers were too sparing of the tomahawk : had they not been so , we , their descendants , should not be at this day loaded with the ...
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... hand , and pointing into the distance with the other , ex- claimed , energetically , " See you that dusky ridge stretching along the farthest verge of the horizon ? ” - 66 " I see , " said 1 , a long cloud , which seems to rise from the ...
... hand , and pointing into the distance with the other , ex- claimed , energetically , " See you that dusky ridge stretching along the farthest verge of the horizon ? ” - 66 " I see , " said 1 , a long cloud , which seems to rise from the ...
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... hand that caressed him . Blows and confinement , cruelty of every description , have produced the excitement of frame which now render him a terror to his own species , and to man his instructor . Now , if unrestrained by habitual dread ...
... hand that caressed him . Blows and confinement , cruelty of every description , have produced the excitement of frame which now render him a terror to his own species , and to man his instructor . Now , if unrestrained by habitual dread ...
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... hand which gives him food : and if a stran- ger came within reach , would bury his fangs and muzzle in the flesh of his victim : he stands an emblem of cruelty and despair . In like manner is man born innocent and sinless ; he comes ...
... hand which gives him food : and if a stran- ger came within reach , would bury his fangs and muzzle in the flesh of his victim : he stands an emblem of cruelty and despair . In like manner is man born innocent and sinless ; he comes ...
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... hand of Nature : and man , like them , is by her unerring wisdom impelled to seek diligently for it also , but with this especial difference in the mode of acquisition : that as to him alone of all the living creatures on our globe ...
... hand of Nature : and man , like them , is by her unerring wisdom impelled to seek diligently for it also , but with this especial difference in the mode of acquisition : that as to him alone of all the living creatures on our globe ...
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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...