The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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Page 105
... interests ; when all that is false and bad in society and religion , will by the common consent of knowledge , be gradually done away ; and all that is true to Nature , and therefore practicable and good , re- tained , beloved , and ...
... interests ; when all that is false and bad in society and religion , will by the common consent of knowledge , be gradually done away ; and all that is true to Nature , and therefore practicable and good , re- tained , beloved , and ...
Page 122
... interest , from any of its subjects who may have to spare , and are willing to lend ; you are to observe , that interest is a sort of extraction of money out of money , an ex- traction of artifice out of what is in itself ar- tificial ...
... interest , from any of its subjects who may have to spare , and are willing to lend ; you are to observe , that interest is a sort of extraction of money out of money , an ex- traction of artifice out of what is in itself ar- tificial ...
Page 123
... interest to be paid ? Here's the rub : ' It is done in this way : the people of the whole realm inclusive are taxed , that is imposts are levied on the use of necessaries - the light of heaven for one ; subsidies are paid into the hands ...
... interest to be paid ? Here's the rub : ' It is done in this way : the people of the whole realm inclusive are taxed , that is imposts are levied on the use of necessaries - the light of heaven for one ; subsidies are paid into the hands ...
Page 124
... interest should be paid to these creditors , than what the State warranted they should receive . ' Our gover- nors sooth these last , saying , ' never mind what these ignorantly impatient say , you shall have all the sugar - plums we ...
... interest should be paid to these creditors , than what the State warranted they should receive . ' Our gover- nors sooth these last , saying , ' never mind what these ignorantly impatient say , you shall have all the sugar - plums we ...
Page 125
... interest ; or changing , by proper negociation , their stock or investment fund : many of them are the middle men , engaged in forwarding affairs be- tween the borrowers and lenders . " And now , " said L , " as we sometime ago were ...
... interest ; or changing , by proper negociation , their stock or investment fund : many of them are the middle men , engaged in forwarding affairs be- tween the borrowers and lenders . " And now , " said L , " as we sometime ago 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...