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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... thought . If his topics are worn threadbare , so are hundreds more on which commentaries , and dissertations without number , still ap- pear and are read with avidity . Besides , persons writing or speaking on the same points , must of ...
... thought . If his topics are worn threadbare , so are hundreds more on which commentaries , and dissertations without number , still ap- pear and are read with avidity . Besides , persons writing or speaking on the same points , must of ...
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... thought I , that the arts and the laws they boast of , are not pleasing enough to restrain these men from leaving the country they profess to admire so much ! Are they come to learn happiness from the Cherokees ? As I one day drew near ...
... thought I , that the arts and the laws they boast of , are not pleasing enough to restrain these men from leaving the country they profess to admire so much ! Are they come to learn happiness from the Cherokees ? As I one day drew near ...
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... thoughts became more painful : " I will fly , " said I , " the land of my birth ; I will visit the country of those who vaunt their superiority over the Red Chil- dren ; I will solve the mystery of the mani- fest contradiction between ...
... thoughts became more painful : " I will fly , " said I , " the land of my birth ; I will visit the country of those who vaunt their superiority over the Red Chil- dren ; I will solve the mystery of the mani- fest contradiction between ...
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... thought of sinking through the surface to a fathomless depth had never occurred to me : and if my canoe upset , confidence in swimming enabled me to pass its greatest width . But now , I fancied the wind which bore us along sounded as a ...
... thought of sinking through the surface to a fathomless depth had never occurred to me : and if my canoe upset , confidence in swimming enabled me to pass its greatest width . But now , I fancied the wind which bore us along sounded as a ...
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... thought I saw on him symptoms of melancholy irritation . In the evening of the day before our landing , a day which had been to him one of increased abstraction and silence , we were near each other ; I marked the dejection of his ...
... thought I saw on him symptoms of melancholy irritation . In the evening of the day before our landing , a day which had been to him one of increased abstraction and silence , we were near each other ; I marked the dejection of his ...
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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...