The Citizen of NatureW. Benbow, 1824 - 238 Seiten |
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... knowledge of their language , and some acquaintance with their customs , so dif- ferent from ours . My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its ...
... knowledge of their language , and some acquaintance with their customs , so dif- ferent from ours . My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its ...
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... knowledge of the stranger , and build caies 3ke his ? Am not I made as one of them ? Surely the European and the Horse , the Indian and the Elk , sprung from one common Cause ? They tell me of things which my soul refuses to comprehend ...
... knowledge of the stranger , and build caies 3ke his ? Am not I made as one of them ? Surely the European and the Horse , the Indian and the Elk , sprung from one common Cause ? They tell me of things which my soul refuses to comprehend ...
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... knowledge damped and mortified : if des- cription thus daunts me , what must I expect to feel when drawn within the vortex itself ? Are religion , virtue , honour , empty sounds without a meaning ? If so , how have I deceived myself . L ...
... knowledge damped and mortified : if des- cription thus daunts me , what must I expect to feel when drawn within the vortex itself ? Are religion , virtue , honour , empty sounds without a meaning ? If so , how have I deceived myself . L ...
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... knowledge , which batter it forlorn on all sides . Happy are they who escape crush and suffocation from the rubbish which will accompany its fall . Rather let us fervently hope its fall will not be precipitate— that it will not fall ...
... knowledge , which batter it forlorn on all sides . Happy are they who escape crush and suffocation from the rubbish which will accompany its fall . Rather let us fervently hope its fall will not be precipitate— that it will not fall ...
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... knowledge , until the hour of death , man busies himself in searching for a something for which his primitive organization imperiously bids him seek ? that object which he thus instinctively seeks to acquire , is the maximum for which ...
... knowledge , until the hour of death , man busies himself in searching for a something for which his primitive organization imperiously bids him seek ? that object which he thus instinctively seeks to acquire , is the maximum for which ...
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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...