The Citizen of NatureW. Benbow, 1824 - 238 Seiten |
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... intellect , cruelty playing at tortures with pas- siveness — in a word , good called evil , and evil good . " You draw , " said I , " a frightful picture of civilization ; already I feel my ardour for knowledge damped and mortified : if ...
... intellect , cruelty playing at tortures with pas- siveness — in a word , good called evil , and evil good . " You draw , " said I , " a frightful picture of civilization ; already I feel my ardour for knowledge damped and mortified : if ...
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... intellect . not been content with misleading his fellows , his cruelty and perverseness are extended even to the inferior genera : it is more than pro- bable that very animal was born docile and playful ; he would have grown to maturity ...
... intellect . not been content with misleading his fellows , his cruelty and perverseness are extended even to the inferior genera : it is more than pro- bable that very animal was born docile and playful ; he would have grown to maturity ...
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... round its horizon , late so serene and promising . Scarcely do the buds of intellect begin to burst into blossom , promising , with the aid of judicious ewe . culture , a harvest of good fruits , when Super- 22 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... round its horizon , late so serene and promising . Scarcely do the buds of intellect begin to burst into blossom , promising , with the aid of judicious ewe . culture , a harvest of good fruits , when Super- 22 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... intellect , are dia- metrically opposite : the first are common to man with the other animal forms ; the second appertain to him as distinguishing character- istics . As to amusements , strictly such , they are so perfectly secondary ...
... intellect , are dia- metrically opposite : the first are common to man with the other animal forms ; the second appertain to him as distinguishing character- istics . As to amusements , strictly such , they are so perfectly secondary ...
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... intellect derives pleasurable emotion therefrom ; it was to be conjectured , and facts prove the conjecture right , that he would in a state of social com- pact dwell on or near the spots where he found food indigenous , or where by the ...
... intellect derives pleasurable emotion therefrom ; it was to be conjectured , and facts prove the conjecture right , that he would in a state of social com- pact dwell on or near the spots where he found food indigenous , or where by the ...
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acquired action animal artificial assert Atheist become belief 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 HARVARD COLLEGE hear heart Holborn human idea ignorance instance intellect knowledge labour laws ledge LETTER 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 tion true truth turn unnatural virtue Whigs
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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 - Necker,'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...