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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... persons writing or speaking on the same points , must of necessity , often stumble over the same ideas ; he can therefore hope to be original on but few advance- ments , and those only of minor import- ance ; especially when it is ...
... persons writing or speaking on the same points , must of necessity , often stumble over the same ideas ; he can therefore hope to be original on but few advance- ments , and those only of minor import- ance ; especially when it is ...
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... My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its stead , had also great weight B in hastening my decision ; for although my heart , THE ...
... My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its stead , had also great weight B in hastening my decision ; for although my heart , THE ...
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... 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 before the gale ...
... 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 before the gale ...
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... persons open wide their mouths for the cram of nonsensical garbage , and are crammed to the tongue accordingly : if your informants belong to that class , I pity them ; if they knew better , I fear " they lied , and they knew they lied ...
... persons open wide their mouths for the cram of nonsensical garbage , and are crammed to the tongue accordingly : if your informants belong to that class , I pity them ; if they knew better , I fear " they lied , and they knew they lied ...
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... 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 like them in the visions of the night ...
... 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 like them in the visions of the night ...
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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...