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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... labour we despise , were fast altering the face of things , and destroying the woods I had been taught to look on with veneration . Strange , thought I , that the arts and the laws they boast of , are not pleasing enough to restrain ...
... labour we despise , were fast altering the face of things , and destroying the woods I had been taught to look on with veneration . Strange , thought I , that the arts and the laws they boast of , are not pleasing enough to restrain ...
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... labour of others , your own ease and leisure . " " Alas ! " said he , " these are the very causes of my chagrin ; oh , pause ! and think how selfish- ly you are reasoning : it is most true , I do indeed possess all these resources ...
... labour of others , your own ease and leisure . " " Alas ! " said he , " these are the very causes of my chagrin ; oh , pause ! and think how selfish- ly you are reasoning : it is most true , I do indeed possess all these resources ...
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... labour of man , were left to Nature for only a few centuries , abandoned to the impulse her hand would give , it would bloom in wildness , in all the luxuriance of wood and water - fall , marsh and plain . The rivers no longer scoured ...
... labour of man , were left to Nature for only a few centuries , abandoned to the impulse her hand would give , it would bloom in wildness , in all the luxuriance of wood and water - fall , marsh and plain . The rivers no longer scoured ...
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... labour sold . Now , from the in- crease in the number of dependants , and the introduction of the twin sisters , ' Luxury and Commerce , ' and the difficulty in the trans- portation of unwieldy bulk , long since felt , of which I shall ...
... labour sold . Now , from the in- crease in the number of dependants , and the introduction of the twin sisters , ' Luxury and Commerce , ' and the difficulty in the trans- portation of unwieldy bulk , long since felt , of which I shall ...
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... labour , without a cumbersome mode of operation . A some- thing which , although in itself absolutely without any value at all , should , from the im- press of the common will , pass current as of a determinate worth ; and as ...
... labour , without a cumbersome mode of operation . A some- thing which , although in itself absolutely without any value at all , should , from the im- press of the common will , pass current as of a determinate worth ; and as ...
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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...