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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... human woe ; you have thrust sore at me in a vulnerable point , and here I must take my stand ; for , as our Song says , ' Alas ! there's no retreating . ' It is tolerated for precisely the same reason , that one dog takes a bite from ...
... human woe ; you have thrust sore at me in a vulnerable point , and here I must take my stand ; for , as our Song says , ' Alas ! there's no retreating . ' It is tolerated for precisely the same reason , that one dog takes a bite from ...
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... intersected by pas- sages now seemingly narrow , along which an endless succession of human beings , reduced to an insignificant size from the distance , poured in all directions , like ants in the paths of THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 35.
... intersected by pas- sages now seemingly narrow , along which an endless succession of human beings , reduced to an insignificant size from the distance , poured in all directions , like ants in the paths of THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 35.
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... human body , considered in compli- cated , functional arrangement and operation , to be only the result of a necessitous combi- nation of atoms , in simultaneous contact and movement . However , the Deists are become sectarian , as well ...
... human body , considered in compli- cated , functional arrangement and operation , to be only the result of a necessitous combi- nation of atoms , in simultaneous contact and movement . However , the Deists are become sectarian , as well ...
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... human felicity , a most despicable coward . ” To illustrate this position , let us take one , out of numberless instances . Suppose , that two thousand years ago , a man had said aloud , in the streets of Rome , " I incline to think ...
... human felicity , a most despicable coward . ” To illustrate this position , let us take one , out of numberless instances . Suppose , that two thousand years ago , a man had said aloud , in the streets of Rome , " I incline to think ...
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... human shape are condemned ; they say , in braggart mood , ' Man is a free agent , he is free to stand or fall ; he can dis- tinguish between good and evil . ' Good , very right , well - said , ye hypocrites . Then if so it be ( and so ...
... human shape are condemned ; they say , in braggart mood , ' Man is a free agent , he is free to stand or fall ; he can dis- tinguish between good and evil . ' Good , very right , well - said , ye hypocrites . Then if so it be ( and so ...
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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...