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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... object invisible to the rest ; some with mouths close pressed , as if biting secret information ; some whistling or humming ; some muttering a bitter curse . Every where faces sharpened with misery and disappointment , sallow with care ...
... object invisible to the rest ; some with mouths close pressed , as if biting secret information ; some whistling or humming ; some muttering a bitter curse . Every where faces sharpened with misery and disappointment , sallow with care ...
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... object of the crowds who press around us ? surely they are agitated by some universal stimulus . " -- " They are so , " said L , " cannot you divine what that stimulus is ? " - Seeing me pause , he con- tinued : " know you not , that ...
... object of the crowds who press around us ? surely they are agitated by some universal stimulus . " -- " They are so , " said L , " cannot you divine what that stimulus is ? " - Seeing me pause , he con- tinued : " know you not , that ...
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... objects presented to him as ge- nerators of that happiness . Metaphysicians have wrangled , and quibbled a long time , about the constituent qualities of the emotion which we designate " happiness : " now , I am of opinion this ...
... objects presented to him as ge- nerators of that happiness . Metaphysicians have wrangled , and quibbled a long time , about the constituent qualities of the emotion which we designate " happiness : " now , I am of opinion this ...
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... objects of sight , and which , from the intimacy between his eyes and his brain , strike as forcibly on the latter as sounds through his power of hearing ; he is enabled to communicate with surprising rapidity . And lastly , in many ...
... objects of sight , and which , from the intimacy between his eyes and his brain , strike as forcibly on the latter as sounds through his power of hearing ; he is enabled to communicate with surprising rapidity . And lastly , in many ...
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... objects around him , both animate and in- animate ; has got such a fixed knowledge of the physical powers and necessitous laws which govern the universe ; that at this day , no one can put an ultimatum to the progress and diffu- sion of ...
... objects around him , both animate and in- animate ; has got such a fixed knowledge of the physical powers and necessitous laws which govern the universe ; that at this day , no one can put an ultimatum to the progress and diffu- sion of ...
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acquire action animal artificial assert Atheist become believe blood cause certainly chimney sweeper civil clothing common conscience consequence Deism Deist dreadful earth emotion endeavour enjoyment enquiry equality equipoise eternity evil existence eyes faculties fancy father fear feeling fool founded free agency fresh genus Gil Blas give hand happiness heal-all hear heart hope human idea ignorance instance intellect knowledge labour latter laws ledge listen look luxuries marriage Maurepas mean ment mental middle men mind misery mode nation natural justice natural law Nature necessity never observe once pain Paradise Lost perhaps persons philanthropy pleasure possession present principles proof reason receive revelation sense slavery sort soul sounds speak species surface tell term thee Theocracy things thou thought timation tion true truth tural turn unnatural virtue Whigs
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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...