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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... , filled with happy faces , and divided into compartments allotted for the abode of industry , sobriety , cleanliness , honesty , and social order . " LETTER IV . On retiring to rest , after this 18 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... , filled with happy faces , and divided into compartments allotted for the abode of industry , sobriety , cleanliness , honesty , and social order . " LETTER IV . On retiring to rest , after this 18 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... rest , after this conversation , I slept but little : all night I was harassed with visions of huge towers nodding , and seem- ing to bend before some invisible power . At length one appeared to fall headlong towards the very spot where ...
... rest , after this conversation , I slept but little : all night I was harassed with visions of huge towers nodding , and seem- ing to bend before some invisible power . At length one appeared to fall headlong towards the very spot where ...
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... 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 , or lighted with a ...
... 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 , or lighted with a ...
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... rest : this is an excellent opportunity , the more grateful because unexpected , so now sit down and be comfortable . Oh ! perhaps you will do as we do ? ( shewing pipes :) He says , ' I have no objection ; ' fills , and lights with the ...
... rest : this is an excellent opportunity , the more grateful because unexpected , so now sit down and be comfortable . Oh ! perhaps you will do as we do ? ( shewing pipes :) He says , ' I have no objection ; ' fills , and lights with the ...
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... 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 our forefathers , as ...
... 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 our forefathers , as ...
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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...