The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... actions and their professions . Why cannot the Cherokees acquire the knowledge of the stranger , and build cities like his ? Am not I made as one of them ? Surely the European and the Horse , the Indian and the Elk , sprung from one ...
... actions and their professions . Why cannot the Cherokees acquire the knowledge of the stranger , and build cities like his ? Am not I made as one of them ? Surely the European and the Horse , the Indian and the Elk , sprung from one ...
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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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... actions and facts are Right or Wrong , ought or ought not to be , from their concordance , or discordance with that voice that if in ... action . It has been said , that good and evil are relative terms ; or , 14 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... actions and facts are Right or Wrong , ought or ought not to be , from their concordance , or discordance with that voice that if in ... 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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Page 221 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
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Page 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...