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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... pleasure rather than pain ; are positions too self - evidently absurd to be once named among us , except as a joke : they are insults to common sense , and should be put away as foolish talking . He is aware some well - disposed friends ...
... pleasure rather than pain ; are positions too self - evidently absurd to be once named among us , except as a joke : they are insults to common sense , and should be put away as foolish talking . He is aware some well - disposed friends ...
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... pleasurable feeling is easily defined , by means of a simple division of its components . Let us first separate it ... pleasures strictly animal and necessitous , which are those of taking food ; and into those which we term amusements ...
... pleasurable feeling is easily defined , by means of a simple division of its components . Let us first separate it ... pleasures strictly animal and necessitous , which are those of taking food ; and into those which we term amusements ...
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... pleasure , ease and serenity of soul , in the lofty degree for which Nature has framed him , unless he is mo- rally certain of being able to satisfy his animal wants , at all seasonable times . The cravings of hunger and the yearnings ...
... pleasure , ease and serenity of soul , in the lofty degree for which Nature has framed him , unless he is mo- rally certain of being able to satisfy his animal wants , at all seasonable times . The cravings of hunger and the yearnings ...
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... pleasure of the soul . And I say , at once , that if we are allowed to define knowledge , as consisting in knowing , as truth , those things which belong to man , as man , by virtue of his superior understanding and pre- rogative , as ...
... pleasure of the soul . And I say , at once , that if we are allowed to define knowledge , as consisting in knowing , as truth , those things which belong to man , as man , by virtue of his superior understanding and pre- rogative , as ...
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... pleasurable emotion , of which he is capable from peculiar organic structure , KNOWLEDGE IS HAPPINESS . ' " I presume no one would be hardy enough to assert , that man has no more capability than a brute ; and I pass over the sensations ...
... pleasurable emotion , of which he is capable from peculiar organic structure , KNOWLEDGE IS HAPPINESS . ' " I presume no one would be hardy enough to assert , that man has no more capability than a brute ; and I pass over the sensations ...
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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...