The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... evil ; may sorrow and strife fly thy dwelling , as the smoke wreathes from the bowl of the calumet . Thou wilt perceive by my date , I have put in execution my design so long meditated , and so often intimated to thee , of visiting the ...
... evil ; may sorrow and strife fly thy dwelling , as the smoke wreathes from the bowl of the calumet . Thou wilt perceive by my date , I have put in execution my design so long meditated , and so often intimated to thee , of visiting the ...
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... evil , and evil good . " You 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 ...
... evil , and evil good . " You 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 ...
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... Evil , or Vice . " It has been said this standard is false , or subject to variation , because men's consciences and notions of good and evil , are not every where the same ; and that therefore it will not serve as a common centre ...
... Evil , or Vice . " It has been said this standard is false , or subject to variation , because men's consciences and notions of good and evil , are not every where the same ; and that therefore it will not serve as a common centre ...
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... evil are relative terms ; or , in other words , that what is virtue in one place , is not in another : it remains for us to see whether they are , or are not , abstract and ab- solute in their essence ; orto speak more plainly , that ...
... evil are relative terms ; or , in other words , that what is virtue in one place , is not in another : it remains for us to see whether they are , or are not , abstract and ab- solute in their essence ; orto speak more plainly , that ...
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... evil lower round its horizon , late so serene and promising . Scarcely do the buds of intellect begin to burst into blossom , promising , with the aid of judicious culture , a harvest of good fruits , when Super- 22 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... evil lower round its horizon , late so serene and promising . Scarcely do the buds of intellect begin to burst into blossom , promising , with the aid of judicious culture , a harvest of good fruits , when Super- 22 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?
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...