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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... will together range through the haunts of men ; we will endea- vour to learn their secret springs of action ; to unravel the thread of their destiny . Each will be B 3 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 9 pride and power demanding their victims ...
... will together range through the haunts of men ; we will endea- vour to learn their secret springs of action ; to unravel the thread of their destiny . Each will be B 3 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 9 pride and power demanding their victims ...
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... action both corporeal and mental , pursued by the common herd of our species , eccentric I am , and glory in being so . " But , " said I , " you are at any rate a subject of Eng- land , a member of her civil compact : " I am so ...
... action both corporeal and mental , pursued by the common herd of our species , eccentric I am , and glory in being so . " But , " said I , " you are at any rate a subject of Eng- land , a member of her civil compact : " I am so ...
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... consci- ence to a key note , or fundamental sound , to act as a generator , or pivot , to an universal har- mony of thought and action . It has been said , that good and evil are relative terms ; or , 14 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... consci- ence to a key note , or fundamental sound , to act as a generator , or pivot , to an universal har- mony of thought and action . It has been said , that good and evil are relative terms ; or , 14 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... by any possibility can have any connexion , or reference with the fixed principles of Reason and Nature : which causes the system itself to heave and boil with action and re - action , like the crater of THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 43.
... by any possibility can have any connexion , or reference with the fixed principles of Reason and Nature : which causes the system itself to heave and boil with action and re - action , like the crater of THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 43.
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... action and re - action , like the crater of a vol- cano : which periodically causes it to burst and overflow , sweeping away its own mounds , ab- sorbing itself in its own vortex ; until drained of its tributary waters , it settles into ...
... action and re - action , like the crater of a vol- cano : which periodically causes it to burst and overflow , sweeping away its own mounds , ab- sorbing itself in its own vortex ; until drained of its tributary waters , it settles into ...
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acquire action animal artificial assert Atheist become believe 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 heal-all hear heart hope human idea ignorance instance intellect knowledge labour latter laws ledge 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 timation tion true truth tural turn unnatural virtue Whigs
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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...