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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... questions ; and waited for some external incident to dis- sipate the gloom which gathered round him . Already he had endeared himself to me by a thousand kind attentions ; already our minds · seemed to vibrate with one impulse : and I 6 ...
... questions ; and waited for some external incident to dis- sipate the gloom which gathered round him . Already he had endeared himself to me by a thousand kind attentions ; already our minds · seemed to vibrate with one impulse : and I 6 ...
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... question by pronouncing , " That a philosopher must eat , but a gourmand need not philosophize ; ” — and this is the first stage of our enquiry . We also know , that man enjoys a capacity of speech and thought ; a power of not only ...
... question by pronouncing , " That a philosopher must eat , but a gourmand need not philosophize ; ” — and this is the first stage of our enquiry . We also know , that man enjoys a capacity of speech and thought ; a power of not only ...
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... question of vast magnitude , of tremendous import , but it shall be answered : what you mean to ask is , in effect , this ; ' Does know- ledge constitute happiness ? ' are they synony- mous ? Now we come to the second grand division ...
... question of vast magnitude , of tremendous import , but it shall be answered : what you mean to ask is , in effect , this ; ' Does know- ledge constitute happiness ? ' are they synony- mous ? Now we come to the second grand division ...
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... question their cause , unless such cause has been since evinced by irrefragable proof . Thus , if it was asserted the sun rose on any given day three thousand years since , we should not question the fact , because we see it rise every ...
... question their cause , unless such cause has been since evinced by irrefragable proof . Thus , if it was asserted the sun rose on any given day three thousand years since , we should not question the fact , because we see it rise every ...
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... question further : I was in hopes to have heard some valuable , interesting information ; but never mind , as your hero said , ' We must make shift without it . ' Come , you don't get on ; fill again , and make yourself at home ...
... question further : I was in hopes to have heard some valuable , interesting information ; but never mind , as your hero said , ' We must make shift without it . ' Come , you don't get on ; fill again , and make yourself at home ...
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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...