The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... course : and in proportion as indisposition subsided , and the tide of my spirits flowed in the usual channel , I too , began to wonder at my former fear . As to my friend , he had been the same under every change ; whether in the ...
... course : and in proportion as indisposition subsided , and the tide of my spirits flowed in the usual channel , I too , began to wonder at my former fear . As to my friend , he had been the same under every change ; whether in the ...
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... course among a particular religious sect here , and L has a decided aversion to all sec- tarian distinctions whatever : he says , it is the height of absurdity for men to form any dis- tinctions by garb or form of speech ; that the real ...
... course among a particular religious sect here , and L has a decided aversion to all sec- tarian distinctions whatever : he says , it is the height of absurdity for men to form any dis- tinctions by garb or form of speech ; that the real ...
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... course the sources of happiness ; but do our fellow - men possess them too ? I tell you , my friend , that this night , at the moment I am speak- ing , thousands of the sons of men are tra- versing this great city without the means of ...
... course the sources of happiness ; but do our fellow - men possess them too ? I tell you , my friend , that this night , at the moment I am speak- ing , thousands of the sons of men are tra- versing this great city without the means of ...
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... course , being in themselves unavoidable ; of clothing pre- diction of future occurrences , depending on contingencies , in terms of language so loose and ambiguous , that let them happen when or how they may , or even not at all ...
... course , being in themselves unavoidable ; of clothing pre- diction of future occurrences , depending on contingencies , in terms of language so loose and ambiguous , that let them happen when or how they may , or even not at all ...
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... which are im- pressed as vividly , with as many shades of in- tonation , as if the objects they pourtray were actually visible ? Why , we must pursue the only course open to us ; attend to natural suggestion 46 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... which are im- pressed as vividly , with as many shades of in- tonation , as if the objects they pourtray were actually visible ? Why , we must pursue the only course open to us ; attend to natural suggestion 46 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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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...