The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... assert , and maintain by argu- mentative reasoning , in the year 1823 , that the poor are born for any other purpose than to serve the rich , that misery exists in any shape visible or tangible , in our highly favoured Isle ; that every ...
... assert , and maintain by argu- mentative reasoning , in the year 1823 , that the poor are born for any other purpose than to serve the rich , that misery exists in any shape visible or tangible , in our highly favoured Isle ; that every ...
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... assertion may be put to the severest proof , their several natures will admit . " You need not wander far in search of that which lies within your own bosom , " said he : " your conscience , that voice whose still small whispers you yet ...
... assertion may be put to the severest proof , their several natures will admit . " You need not wander far in search of that which lies within your own bosom , " said he : " your conscience , that voice whose still small whispers you yet ...
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... assertion be warrantable or not ; whether , when the faculties of man are enlightened by the immeasurable brightness of science , by which he learns his real place among the powers of matter and motion , he will or will not , be enabled ...
... assertion be warrantable or not ; whether , when the faculties of man are enlightened by the immeasurable brightness of science , by which he learns his real place among the powers of matter and motion , he will or will not , be enabled ...
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... assert , that man has no more capability than a brute ; and I pass over the sensations of feeding , procreation , and sleep , which he holds in common with the beasts , assuming them as properties indisputable . And there- fore , on the ...
... assert , that man has no more capability than a brute ; and I pass over the sensations of feeding , procreation , and sleep , which he holds in common with the beasts , assuming them as properties indisputable . And there- fore , on the ...
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... assert , without assuming the slightest pre- tensions to foreknowledge , that this apparently improbable change will happen from causes purely natural , and of course : it will take place from the very same reasons which caus- ed the ...
... assert , without assuming the slightest pre- tensions to foreknowledge , that this apparently improbable change will happen from causes purely natural , and of course : it will take place from the very same reasons which caus- ed the ...
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Page 221 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 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...
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...