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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... proof , their several natures will admit . " You need not wander far in search of that which lies within your own bosom , " said he : " your conscience , that voice whose still small whispers you yet scarce hear through the mist of ...
... proof , their several natures will admit . " You need not wander far in search of that which lies within your own bosom , " said he : " your conscience , that voice whose still small whispers you yet scarce hear through the mist of ...
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... proof : what that proof is , I will hereafter shew you ; but it remains for you to be convinced , that certain actions and facts are Right or Wrong , ought or ought not to be , from their concordance , or discordance with that voice ...
... proof : what that proof is , I will hereafter shew you ; but it remains for you to be convinced , that certain actions and facts are Right or Wrong , ought or ought not to be , from their concordance , or discordance with that voice ...
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... proof of what existences do all these things tend ? to this , and nothing else — that the only natural order of things is positively inverted by means direct and indirect : that there is something unnatural , complex , and wrong , at ...
... proof of what existences do all these things tend ? to this , and nothing else — that the only natural order of things is positively inverted by means direct and indirect : that there is something unnatural , complex , and wrong , at ...
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... proof , in aid and confirmation of what , from unfrequent occur- rence , might at first be heard with incredulity . If the record is of things in line with those under daily observation , we believe them at once , as effects , though ...
... proof , in aid and confirmation of what , from unfrequent occur- rence , might at first be heard with incredulity . If the record is of things in line with those under daily observation , we believe them at once , as effects , though ...
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... proof in aid , we could claim no right to hesitation in credence , because the mind assents involuntarily to the proposition ; " that whatever has happened may happen again , provided its cause be still existing . ” : And here let us ...
... proof in aid , we could claim no right to hesitation in credence , because the mind assents involuntarily to the proposition ; " that whatever has happened may happen again , provided its cause be still existing . ” : And here let us ...
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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...