The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... ideas ; he can therefore hope to be original on but few advance- ments , and those only of minor import- ance ; especially when it is considered his incidents are those of common life , and are so plain , as to be intelligible by all ...
... ideas ; he can therefore hope to be original on but few advance- ments , and those only of minor import- ance ; especially when it is considered his incidents are those of common life , and are so plain , as to be intelligible by all ...
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... ideas , are dispersed by the beams of knowledge . We will together range through the haunts of men ; we will endea- vour to learn their secret springs of action ; to unravel the thread of their destiny . Each will be B 3 THE CITIZEN OF ...
... ideas , are dispersed by the beams of knowledge . We will together range through the haunts of men ; we will endea- vour to learn their secret springs of action ; to unravel the thread of their destiny . Each will be B 3 THE CITIZEN OF ...
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... idea that , by that , I should have a good clue to guide my conjectures as to the rest : this is an excellent opportunity , the more grateful because unexpected , so now sit down and be comfortable . Oh ! perhaps you will do as we do ...
... idea that , by that , I should have a good clue to guide my conjectures as to the rest : this is an excellent opportunity , the more grateful because unexpected , so now sit down and be comfortable . Oh ! perhaps you will do as we do ...
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... idea of a drowning world is too dreadful and cruel to be listened to : there is some weight in that position , if these catastrophes are spoken of in the light of a " Specialty ; " but I can with difficulty bring against Nature a charge ...
... idea of a drowning world is too dreadful and cruel to be listened to : there is some weight in that position , if these catastrophes are spoken of in the light of a " Specialty ; " but I can with difficulty bring against Nature a charge ...
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... exist in other spheres , of whose forms and properties we can have no more idea than a blind man can of colours , than the inferior animals here , have of ourselves ? I spoke just now , of a series of mutabilities 60 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... exist in other spheres , of whose forms and properties we can have no more idea than a blind man can of colours , than the inferior animals here , have of ourselves ? I spoke just now , of a series of mutabilities 60 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...