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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... least , to walk in the steps of his predecessors . He is thoroughly sensible of the manifold imperfections of this his first essay , and earnestly implores a lenient judgment at the bar of a liberal and enlightened Public . If the man ...
... least , to walk in the steps of his predecessors . He is thoroughly sensible of the manifold imperfections of this his first essay , and earnestly implores a lenient judgment at the bar of a liberal and enlightened Public . If the man ...
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... least a physical right to perfect equality in the enjoyment of ex- istence , as an incident inseparable from his being ; and that instinctively he loves pleasure rather than pain ; are positions too self - evidently absurd to be once ...
... least a physical right to perfect equality in the enjoyment of ex- istence , as an incident inseparable from his being ; and that instinctively he loves pleasure rather than pain ; are positions too self - evidently absurd to be once ...
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... least , the persons who na- vigated our vessel declared ; but to my simple faculties all was new and wonderful . When the shores faded from the sight , and we en- tered on an expanse which seemed boundless , as we shot like a swan ...
... least , the persons who na- vigated our vessel declared ; but to my simple faculties all was new and wonderful . When the shores faded from the sight , and we en- tered on an expanse which seemed boundless , as we shot like a swan ...
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... least at some indefinite period , before the termination of their career of existence ? " - " No , " said L- " they are not happy , nor will they attain their wishes . " Why not ? Because they are uncertain of a plenitude of food from ...
... least at some indefinite period , before the termination of their career of existence ? " - " No , " said L- " they are not happy , nor will they attain their wishes . " Why not ? Because they are uncertain of a plenitude of food from ...
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... least such I consider the corollary , from our last proposition concerning know- ledge and happiness . And why are they ignorant , seeing that , as men , they possess a capability of acquiring knowledge ? Because the society which owns ...
... least such I consider the corollary , from our last proposition concerning know- ledge and happiness . And why are they ignorant , seeing that , as men , they possess a capability of acquiring knowledge ? Because the society which owns ...
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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...