The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... given by Mr. L- , to be those of him- self . To 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 ...
... given by Mr. L- , to be those of him- self . To 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 ...
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... given the subject a thought . If his topics are worn threadbare , so are hundreds more on which commentaries , and dissertations without number , still ap- pear and are read with avidity . Besides , persons writing or speaking on the ...
... given the subject a thought . If his topics are worn threadbare , so are hundreds more on which commentaries , and dissertations without number , still ap- pear and are read with avidity . Besides , persons writing or speaking on the ...
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... given by Nature to all her children ? Surely not . Sleep is besides wonderful , inasmuch that the brain though suspended in many of its nicer operations , turns to , and is sharpened in others ; it loses its powers of discrimination ...
... given by Nature to all her children ? Surely not . Sleep is besides wonderful , inasmuch that the brain though suspended in many of its nicer operations , turns to , and is sharpened in others ; it loses its powers of discrimination ...
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... given day three thousand years since , we should not question the fact , because we see it rise every day of our lives . But if it was farther asserted , that the sun gave no light during a certain portion of another day , we should ...
... given day three thousand years since , we should not question the fact , because we see it rise every day of our lives . But if it was farther asserted , that the sun gave no light during a certain portion of another day , we should ...
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... given ! ' And yet God is not unjust ; it is Man who is unjust to him- self ; who will not justify the nature bestowed on him . Upon their own showing , these monsters in human shape are condemned ; they say , in braggart mood , ' Man is ...
... given ! ' And yet God is not unjust ; it is Man who is unjust to him- self ; who will not justify the nature bestowed on him . Upon their own showing , these monsters in human shape are condemned ; they say , in braggart mood , ' Man is ...
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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...