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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... less striking : carriages of all sorts meeting and passing , shabby and splendid , full and empty ; drawn by horses , famished or pampered ; some full of heavy packages , or vessels of wood bound with iron . In the front part of many of ...
... less striking : carriages of all sorts meeting and passing , shabby and splendid , full and empty ; drawn by horses , famished or pampered ; some full of heavy packages , or vessels of wood bound with iron . In the front part of many of ...
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... less intenseness : I often see places and persons , and converse with those whose appearance and voice seem fa- miliar to me , though how , I cannot tell : I can only try to account for the phenomenon , by supposing I have seen figures ...
... less intenseness : I often see places and persons , and converse with those whose appearance and voice seem fa- miliar to me , though how , I cannot tell : I can only try to account for the phenomenon , by supposing I have seen figures ...
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... less intervals , on which all civil society has been hitherto framed ; it will be necessary to go back a good way , and notice with as much perspicuity as the subject will admit , the great changes to which our globe has been exposed ...
... less intervals , on which all civil society has been hitherto framed ; it will be necessary to go back a good way , and notice with as much perspicuity as the subject will admit , the great changes to which our globe has been exposed ...
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... less positive , implying " probably you have . " ) He con- tinues ; " You must know I am an inhabitant of the Earth , or rather was so , and should not wonder if this was our moon ; don't I look blue ? " - " Why , yes , rather 50 THE ...
... less positive , implying " probably you have . " ) He con- tinues ; " You must know I am an inhabitant of the Earth , or rather was so , and should not wonder if this was our moon ; don't I look blue ? " - " Why , yes , rather 50 THE ...
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... less orthodox than the rest , say that we know nothing about the matter , and never shall ; but our President declares that the secret of the construction of it , and of its inhabitants , was specially entrusted to a particular tribe of ...
... less orthodox than the rest , say that we know nothing about the matter , and never shall ; but our President declares that the secret of the construction of it , and of its inhabitants , was specially entrusted to a particular tribe 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...