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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... hive , will buz such slanderous imputations ; but feels secure in the es- timation of his real friends , against such impotent attempts at a sting . Perhaps the declaration is super- fluous , but he makes ii PREFACE .
... hive , will buz such slanderous imputations ; but feels secure in the es- timation of his real friends , against such impotent attempts at a sting . Perhaps the declaration is super- fluous , but he makes ii PREFACE .
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... Perhaps the declaration is super- fluous , but he makes it nevertheless , that he has scarcely read a page on Ethics , Political Economy , or Metaphysics . The design of the following sheets was sug- gested by an incident occurring , a ...
... Perhaps the declaration is super- fluous , but he makes it nevertheless , that he has scarcely read a page on Ethics , Political Economy , or Metaphysics . The design of the following sheets was sug- gested by an incident occurring , a ...
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... perhaps I was wrong in drawing this gloomy prospect ; perhaps I drew it prematurely ; you must see with your own eyes , and prepare to judge for yourself . Fear not your mind will not fail to discern truth , when the mists of ignorance ...
... perhaps I was wrong in drawing this gloomy prospect ; perhaps I drew it prematurely ; you must see with your own eyes , and prepare to judge for yourself . Fear not your mind will not fail to discern truth , when the mists of ignorance ...
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... perhaps at a long interval before , and that the impressions then made are called up anew , and embodied by their similitudes seen in reality . If it be objected , how the impressions made during sleep can lie dormant until renewed by ...
... perhaps at a long interval before , and that the impressions then made are called up anew , and embodied by their similitudes seen in reality . If it be objected , how the impressions made during sleep can lie dormant until renewed by ...
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... perhaps I dropped , why not ? " - " Well , " I should say , " perhaps you did ; but , come how you may , you are heartily welcome , as a benighted traveller , in the first place ; and secondly , because you are just the man I want to ...
... perhaps I dropped , why not ? " - " Well , " I should say , " perhaps you did ; but , come how you may , you are heartily welcome , as a benighted traveller , in the first place ; and secondly , because you are just the man I want to ...
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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...