Cooper's Works, Band 17Stringer and Townsend, 1855 |
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... accompanying narrative , for in England there is a disposition to cavil at extraordinary facts , but the distance of America from my place of residence will completely save me from ridicule . The world must have the truth X INTRODUCTION .
... accompanying narrative , for in England there is a disposition to cavil at extraordinary facts , but the distance of America from my place of residence will completely save me from ridicule . The world must have the truth X INTRODUCTION .
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... truth in it , which , I suppose , is as much as be- falls any book , the Bible , the Almanac , and the State Laws , excepted . I remember Sir John well , and shall gainsay no- thing he testifies to , for the reason that friends should ...
... truth in it , which , I suppose , is as much as be- falls any book , the Bible , the Almanac , and the State Laws , excepted . I remember Sir John well , and shall gainsay no- thing he testifies to , for the reason that friends should ...
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... truths of so little apparent probability as to appear fictions , and fictions so like the truth that the ordinary observer is very apt to affirm that he was an eye - witness to their exist- ence : two facts that all our historians would ...
... truths of so little apparent probability as to appear fictions , and fictions so like the truth that the ordinary observer is very apt to affirm that he was an eye - witness to their exist- ence : two facts that all our historians would ...
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... truth of the whole career of his family , than it is in my power to show that of my ancestor up to the hour when he was found , in the second year of his age , crying with cold and hunger , in the parish of St. Giles , in the city of ...
... truth of the whole career of his family , than it is in my power to show that of my ancestor up to the hour when he was found , in the second year of his age , crying with cold and hunger , in the parish of St. Giles , in the city of ...
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... truth that the greatest events of this life are much oftener the result of impulse than of calculation . I have it by a direct tradition , orally conveyed from the lips of my ancestor , that no one could have been more lucky than ...
... truth that the greatest events of this life are much oftener the result of impulse than of calculation . I have it by a direct tradition , orally conveyed from the lips of my ancestor , that no one could have been more lucky than ...
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Seite 327 - ... that he must have the attributes of a conscience, of which memory formed one of the most essential features. Conscience was defined to be " the faculty by which we judge of the goodness or wickedness of our own actions.