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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... idea that , by that , I should have a good clue to guide my conjectures as to the rest : this is an excellent opportunity , the more grateful because unexpected , so now sit down and be comfortable . Oh ! perhaps you will do as we do ...
... idea that , by that , I should have a good clue to guide my conjectures as to the rest : this is an excellent opportunity , the more grateful because unexpected , so now sit down and be comfortable . Oh ! perhaps you will do as we do ...
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... idea of a drowning world is too dreadful and cruel to be listened to : there is some weight in that position , if these catastrophes are spoken of in the light of a " Specialty ; " but I can with difficulty bring against Nature a charge ...
... idea of a drowning world is too dreadful and cruel to be listened to : there is some weight in that position , if these catastrophes are spoken of in the light of a " Specialty ; " but I can with difficulty bring against Nature a charge ...
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... exist in other spheres , of whose forms and properties we can have no more idea than a blind man can of colours , than the inferior animals here , have of ourselves ? I spoke just now , of a series of mutabilities 60 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... exist in other spheres , of whose forms and properties we can have no more idea than a blind man can of colours , than the inferior animals here , have of ourselves ? I spoke just now , of a series of mutabilities 60 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... idea of Power reducing pre - existing chaos to order ; but that the idea of matter being created out of nonentity , is in itself inconceiv- able . The comprehension of matter lasting to all eternity in some shape , is much easier . That ...
... idea of Power reducing pre - existing chaos to order ; but that the idea of matter being created out of nonentity , is in itself inconceiv- able . The comprehension of matter lasting to all eternity in some shape , is much easier . That ...
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... idea of Deity . They assert belief in a Supreme , but disagree as to his powers and modes : some deify prin- ciple , saying , " God and Principle are one . ' Others assert the Deity to be tied to principle , and that from the nature of ...
... idea of Deity . They assert belief in a Supreme , but disagree as to his powers and modes : some deify prin- ciple , saying , " God and Principle are one . ' Others assert the Deity to be tied to principle , and that from the nature of ...
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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...