The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... swimming enabled me to pass its greatest width . But now , I fancied the wind which bore us along sounded as a breath in- haled by the Spirit of the deep , to draw us : within his jaws . Our companions , however , THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 5.
... swimming enabled me to pass its greatest width . But now , I fancied the wind which bore us along sounded as a breath in- haled by the Spirit of the deep , to draw us : within his jaws . Our companions , however , THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 5.
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... draw , " said I , " a frightful picture of civilization ; already I feel my ardour for knowledge damped and mortified : if des- cription thus daunts me , what must I expect to feel when drawn within the vortex itself ? Are religion ...
... draw , " said I , " a frightful picture of civilization ; already I feel my ardour for knowledge damped and mortified : if des- cription thus daunts me , what must I expect to feel when drawn within the vortex itself ? Are religion ...
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... drawn by horses , famished or pampered ; some full of heavy packages , or vessels of wood bound with iron . In the front part of many of these latter , a large dog was placed , who with his fore feet on the inner edge , tail erect , and ...
... drawn by horses , famished or pampered ; some full of heavy packages , or vessels of wood bound with iron . In the front part of many of these latter , a large dog was placed , who with his fore feet on the inner edge , tail erect , and ...
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... drawn into play ; he becomes more like a complicated piece of mechanism . His original uniform simplicity of will becomes subject to impres- sions of Pride , Ambition , Hope , Despair , Love ( refined ) , Hatred , Anger , Envy , Malice ...
... drawn into play ; he becomes more like a complicated piece of mechanism . His original uniform simplicity of will becomes subject to impres- sions of Pride , Ambition , Hope , Despair , Love ( refined ) , Hatred , Anger , Envy , Malice ...
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... draw back and listen . " I did so , and heard the hubbub of the multitude below ascending through the haze , like the night - roar of the ocean , heard while unseen . The dwellings of men joined in every variety of form and size , were ...
... draw back and listen . " I did so , and heard the hubbub of the multitude below ascending through the haze , like the night - roar of the ocean , heard while unseen . The dwellings of men joined in every variety of form and size , were ...
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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...