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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... true light , and by their right names : I have no wish to assume au- thority over your mind , to fashion your no- tions by my own ; that would be a vile usur- pation , at which my nature recoils . You possess free agency , see and judge ...
... true light , and by their right names : I have no wish to assume au- thority over your mind , to fashion your no- tions by my own ; that would be a vile usur- pation , at which my nature recoils . You possess free agency , see and judge ...
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... true premises ; to guard you from error and deception by outside appearances . And this office I may , from ex- perience and prior trial , claim with as much justice and good intention , as one may warn another from venturing on ice ...
... true premises ; to guard you from error and deception by outside appearances . And this office I may , from ex- perience and prior trial , claim with as much justice and good intention , as one may warn another from venturing on ice ...
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... true , I do indeed possess all these resources usually deemed as of course the sources of happiness ; but do our fellow - men possess them too ? I tell you , my friend , that this night , at the moment I am speak- ing , thousands of the ...
... true , I do indeed possess all these resources usually deemed as of course the sources of happiness ; but do our fellow - men possess them too ? I tell you , my friend , that this night , at the moment I am speak- ing , thousands of the ...
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... work hard : it is about the same with us bipeds . We will then walk out and look about us , it is time to shew you theory reduced to practice besides , there is an old and true THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 19 LETTER IV. ...
... work hard : it is about the same with us bipeds . We will then walk out and look about us , it is time to shew you theory reduced to practice besides , there is an old and true THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 19 LETTER IV. ...
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... true saying , “ example is better than precept . " Accordingly , forth we strolled : but to de- scribe with any degree of exactness , the figures we encountered in gliding through the throng on the pavement , is utterly beyond the ...
... true saying , “ example is better than precept . " Accordingly , forth we strolled : but to de- scribe with any degree of exactness , the figures we encountered in gliding through the throng on the pavement , is utterly beyond the ...
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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...