The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... continue to be so to all eternity . " " I begin to perceive , ” said I , " that I have yet much to learn : I find I know compara- tively nothing ; and yet , after all , I cannot see what reason you have to complain ; why you , of all ...
... continue to be so to all eternity . " " I begin to perceive , ” said I , " that I have yet much to learn : I find I know compara- tively nothing ; and yet , after all , I cannot see what reason you have to complain ; why you , of all ...
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... sheer ignorance , or because , knowing better , they wished the present system to continue ? I hope to convince you shortly , how by far the greater portion of mankind glide down the stream of existence after 16 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... sheer ignorance , or because , knowing better , they wished the present system to continue ? I hope to convince you shortly , how by far the greater portion of mankind glide down the stream of existence after 16 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... continue the conversation on this topic . " It is indeed , " said L , " it is like every other function of Nature , wonderful and beau- tiful : I own , I delight in looking at a person stretched in refreshing slumber . Did you never ...
... continue the conversation on this topic . " It is indeed , " said L , " it is like every other function of Nature , wonderful and beau- tiful : I own , I delight in looking at a person stretched in refreshing slumber . Did you never ...
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... continues to make use of only the im- perfect intonation acquired previously to his loss . If he is born deaf , void of hearing from malformation , dumbness is an inseparable con- sequence , for he can acquire no articulate sounds ; the ...
... continues to make use of only the im- perfect intonation acquired previously to his loss . If he is born deaf , void of hearing from malformation , dumbness is an inseparable con- sequence , for he can acquire no articulate sounds ; the ...
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... continue in exclusive possession of the cattle over which he claimed ownership , and which were also increasing daily , there would cease to be room for all . And the art of tillage being forgot or unknown , that if every man gathered ...
... continue in exclusive possession of the cattle over which he claimed ownership , and which were also increasing daily , there would cease to be room for all . And the art of tillage being forgot or unknown , that if every man gathered ...
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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...