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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... tell : I can only try to account for the phenomenon , by supposing I have seen figures like them in the visions of the night , perhaps at a long interval before , and that the impressions then made are called up anew , and embodied by ...
... tell : I can only try to account for the phenomenon , by supposing I have seen figures like them in the visions of the night , perhaps at a long interval before , and that the impressions then made are called up anew , and embodied by ...
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... tell you , " he continued , " this river , its waters restored to their pristine clearness , shall again reflect on its bosom the shadows of trees hanging over it in wild luxuriance ; again shall its banks , clothed with reeds and sedge ...
... tell you , " he continued , " this river , its waters restored to their pristine clearness , shall again reflect on its bosom the shadows of trees hanging over it in wild luxuriance ; again shall its banks , clothed with reeds and sedge ...
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... tell ; I'm a matter - of - fact man , and don't like to speak positively to what I don't understand : perhaps I dropped , why not ? " - " Well , " I should say , " perhaps you did ; but , come how you may , you are heartily welcome , as ...
... tell ; I'm a matter - of - fact man , and don't like to speak positively to what I don't understand : perhaps I dropped , why not ? " - " Well , " I should say , " perhaps you did ; but , come how you may , you are heartily welcome , as ...
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... tell you , they had taken a few of each sort of the animals found on our globe , on board with themselves , in order that the breeds might not be lost . When the water went off , the vessel ran aground , and out THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 53.
... tell you , they had taken a few of each sort of the animals found on our globe , on board with themselves , in order that the breeds might not be lost . When the water went off , the vessel ran aground , and out THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 53.
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... tell you what , mine honoured guest , the President was pleased to be funny at your expense ; he was certainly joking , or imposing on you ; the mildest con- struction we can put on the story is , he was himself deceived . Such ...
... tell you what , mine honoured guest , the President was pleased to be funny at your expense ; he was certainly joking , or imposing on you ; the mildest con- struction we can put on the story is , he was himself deceived . Such ...
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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...