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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... of consci- ence to a key note , or fundamental sound , to act as a generator , or pivot , to an universal har- mony of thought and action . It has been said , that good and evil are relative terms ; or , 14 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... of consci- ence to a key note , or fundamental sound , to act as a generator , or pivot , to an universal har- mony of thought and action . It has been said , that good and evil are relative terms ; or , 14 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... terms ; or , in other words , that what is virtue in one place , is not in another : it remains for us to see whether they are , or are not , abstract and ab- solute in their essence ; orto speak more plainly , that virtue is virtue ...
... terms ; or , in other words , that what is virtue in one place , is not in another : it remains for us to see whether they are , or are not , abstract and ab- solute in their essence ; orto speak more plainly , that virtue is virtue ...
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... 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 con- tinuance THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 25.
... 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 con- tinuance THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 25.
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... terms of language so loose and ambiguous , that let them happen when or how they may , or even not at all , those who foretold shall claim the merit of prescience . No , no , my friend , I vaunt not thus ; I merely assert , without ...
... terms of language so loose and ambiguous , that let them happen when or how they may , or even not at all , those who foretold shall claim the merit of prescience . No , no , my friend , I vaunt not thus ; I merely assert , without ...
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... term of his own animal existence ; but by the terms of such existence loses such his portion , the instant he parts with that very being , to which at his production it was an- nexed as an inseparable incident . Now , granting these ...
... term of his own animal existence ; but by the terms of such existence loses such his portion , the instant he parts with that very being , to which at his production it was an- nexed as an inseparable incident . Now , granting these ...
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acquire action animal artificial assert Atheist become believe blood cause certainly chimney sweeper civil clothing common conscience consequence Deism Deist dreadful earth emotion endeavour enjoyment enquiry equality equipoise eternity evil existence eyes faculties fancy father fear feeling fool founded free agency fresh genus Gil Blas give hand happiness heal-all hear heart hope human idea ignorance instance intellect knowledge labour latter laws ledge listen look luxuries marriage Maurepas mean ment mental middle men mind misery mode nation natural justice natural law Nature necessity never observe once pain Paradise Lost perhaps persons philanthropy pleasure possession present principles proof reason receive revelation sense slavery sort soul sounds speak species surface tell term thee Theocracy things thou thought timation tion true truth tural turn unnatural virtue Whigs
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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...