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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... seemed close . His preparations for departure were already com- plete , and a short time sufficed for mine . At once I embarked on the world of waters , without bidding adieu even to thee ; and buoyant with hope , turned away from the ...
... seemed close . His preparations for departure were already com- plete , and a short time sufficed for mine . At once I embarked on the world of waters , without bidding adieu even to thee ; and buoyant with hope , turned away from the ...
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... seemed boundless , as we shot like a swan before the gale , I felt an emotion of terror to which my bosom had been hitherto a stranger . This was in- creased by the depression produced from the nausea of unnatural motion . In the in ...
... seemed boundless , as we shot like a swan before the gale , I felt an emotion of terror to which my bosom had been hitherto a stranger . This was in- creased by the depression produced from the nausea of unnatural motion . In the in ...
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... seemed incapable of understanding my feel- ing from habit or indifference they were wrapped in perfect confidence , and spoke of terminating our career safely , as a matter of course : and in proportion as indisposition subsided , and ...
... seemed incapable of understanding my feel- ing from habit or indifference they were wrapped in perfect confidence , and spoke of terminating our career safely , as a matter of course : and in proportion as indisposition subsided , and ...
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... seemed to vibrate with one impulse : and I sat in silence , wishing , yet not daring , to break a pause becoming every moment more irksome . I was not doomed to hope in vain : a day sul- try and cloudy , was closed by an evening so calm ...
... seemed to vibrate with one impulse : and I sat in silence , wishing , yet not daring , to break a pause becoming every moment more irksome . I was not doomed to hope in vain : a day sul- try and cloudy , was closed by an evening so calm ...
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... seemed to say , “ do not delay us , we carry the weight of empire on our shoulders ; " some with contracted brows , looking downwards , as if to search for treasure hidden beneath the surface ; others looking anxiously straight forward ...
... seemed to say , “ do not delay us , we carry the weight of empire on our shoulders ; " some with contracted brows , looking downwards , as if to search for treasure hidden beneath the surface ; others looking anxiously straight forward ...
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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...