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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... sure and certain test by which all opinion , all assertion may be put to the severest proof , their several natures will admit . " You need not wander far in search of that which lies within your own bosom , " said he : " your ...
... sure and certain test by which all opinion , all assertion may be put to the severest proof , their several natures will admit . " You need not wander far in search of that which lies within your own bosom , " said he : " your ...
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... sure " let the first be again divided into two parts , that is , into pleasures strictly animal and necessitous , which are those of taking food ; and into those which we term amusements , which last are certainly not necessary to the ...
... sure " let the first be again divided into two parts , that is , into pleasures strictly animal and necessitous , which are those of taking food ; and into those which we term amusements , which last are certainly not necessary to the ...
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... sure , ' whined one of the girls , I don't see any fun in it ; we shall have no quadrilles all the season ! ' - ' Hold your tongue , hussey ; ' said one of the elders , you are always grumbling , think yourself well off ; we'll manage ...
... sure , ' whined one of the girls , I don't see any fun in it ; we shall have no quadrilles all the season ! ' - ' Hold your tongue , hussey ; ' said one of the elders , you are always grumbling , think yourself well off ; we'll manage ...
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... sure not to be entrapped by gluttony and drunkenness ; and when he said so , I saw Master nod in his pew , as much as to say , ' very true , mind that : ' and then , they went to dinner together , on the fat of the land . But I'm ...
... sure not to be entrapped by gluttony and drunkenness ; and when he said so , I saw Master nod in his pew , as much as to say , ' very true , mind that : ' and then , they went to dinner together , on the fat of the land . But I'm ...
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... sure as eggs are eggs , for if that goes , we shall go . ' A com- fortable conclusion this ! The schemes pur- sued here , are the brag of our thick - and - thin literals , who see no further than their own noses ; those who ken a degree ...
... sure as eggs are eggs , for if that goes , we shall go . ' A com- fortable conclusion this ! The schemes pur- sued here , are the brag of our thick - and - thin literals , who see no further than their own noses ; those who ken a degree ...
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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...