The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... . My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its stead , had also great weight B in hastening my decision ; for although my heart , THE ...
... . My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its stead , had also great weight B in hastening my decision ; for although my heart , THE ...
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... heart , in its simplicity , failed to catch con- viction from their doctrines , it yet whispered the probability of my own notions being founded on hereditary error . I had viewed also , with surprise , the vast accession lately made to ...
... heart , in its simplicity , failed to catch con- viction from their doctrines , it yet whispered the probability of my own notions being founded on hereditary error . I had viewed also , with surprise , the vast accession lately made to ...
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... heart : forgive me , my friend , if I have seemed estranged and altered ; this lovely sunset has recalled me to myself : my apparent neglect has arisen solely from increasing anxiety on your ac- count . You have left home to accompany ...
... heart : forgive me , my friend , if I have seemed estranged and altered ; this lovely sunset has recalled me to myself : my apparent neglect has arisen solely from increasing anxiety on your ac- count . You have left home to accompany ...
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... hearts did wince at his dying words , they would allow such secret mis- giving to pass the ' barrier of their teeth , ' as old Homer , so aptly styles it ? Surely not . They would be well aware , that in that case their own precious ...
... hearts did wince at his dying words , they would allow such secret mis- giving to pass the ' barrier of their teeth , ' as old Homer , so aptly styles it ? Surely not . They would be well aware , that in that case their own precious ...
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... heart , and insensibly began to quicken my pace . L- saw my emotion , and smiled his sweetest : " Steady ! " he said , " the parade is but just begun , we are in good time ; they will be stationary presently , and enable us to hear the ...
... heart , and insensibly began to quicken my pace . L- saw my emotion , and smiled his sweetest : " Steady ! " he said , " the parade is but just begun , we are in good time ; they will be stationary presently , and enable us to hear the ...
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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...