The Citizen of NatureW. Benbow, 1824 - 238 Seiten |
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... Thou wilt perceive by my date , I have put in execution my design so long meditated , and so often intimated to thee , of visiting the country of the Whites . Thou wilt doubtless remember my frequent stay at the English settlement on ...
... Thou wilt perceive by my date , I have put in execution my design so long meditated , and so often intimated to thee , of visiting the country of the Whites . Thou wilt doubtless remember my frequent stay at the English settlement on ...
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... thou mightest deem me unkind . Thou shalt from time to time receive my observations and records of passing events among the people I am going to visit : I think thou wilt be in- terested in my narration . Farewell . LETTER II . England ...
... thou mightest deem me unkind . Thou shalt from time to time receive my observations and records of passing events among the people I am going to visit : I think thou wilt be in- terested in my narration . Farewell . LETTER II . England ...
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... thou- sand years back , at a period when not one jot of natural causation was known ; when the transmission of events to posterity was only by word of mouth , or signs called hierogly- phics , which from their nature must be more ...
... thou- sand years back , at a period when not one jot of natural causation was known ; when the transmission of events to posterity was only by word of mouth , or signs called hierogly- phics , which from their nature must be more ...
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... thou- sand , or forty units , should perish in natural operation ? Each individual loses life in each case . Besides , every living creature is born into the world subject to the incidents of that world 58 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... thou- sand , or forty units , should perish in natural operation ? Each individual loses life in each case . Besides , every living creature is born into the world subject to the incidents of that world 58 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... thou- sands , without demonstrative proof in aid ? and that proof was wanting , because they had not discovered what we know . Can a man swim up the falls of Niagara ? Such men as Virgil and Horace laughed in their sleeves at the ...
... thou- sands , without demonstrative proof in aid ? and that proof was wanting , because they had not discovered what we know . Can a man swim up the falls of Niagara ? Such men as Virgil and Horace laughed in their sleeves at 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...