The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... land of my birth ; I will visit the country of those who vaunt their superiority over the Red Chil- dren ; I will solve the mystery of the mani- fest contradiction between their actions and their professions . Why cannot the Cherokees ...
... land of my birth ; I will visit the country of those who vaunt their superiority over the Red Chil- dren ; I will solve the mystery of the mani- fest contradiction between their actions and their professions . Why cannot the Cherokees ...
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... land of my fathers . Our friendship demands this explanation ; for lack whereof thou mightest deem me unkind . Thou shalt from time to time receive my observations and records of passing events among the people I am going to visit : I ...
... land of my fathers . Our friendship demands this explanation ; for lack whereof thou mightest deem me unkind . Thou shalt from time to time receive my observations and records of passing events among the people I am going to visit : I ...
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... land , I forbore to harass him with questions ; and waited for some external incident to dis- sipate the gloom which gathered round him . Already he had endeared himself to me by a thousand kind attentions ; already our minds · seemed ...
... land , I forbore to harass him with questions ; and waited for some external incident to dis- sipate the gloom which gathered round him . Already he had endeared himself to me by a thousand kind attentions ; already our minds · seemed ...
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... land , a member of her civil compact : " I am so , certainly , " he replied : " as a birthright I in- herit protection from , and am amenable to her laws ; and while within the pale of her do- minion , am one of her community : and from ...
... land , a member of her civil compact : " I am so , certainly , " he replied : " as a birthright I in- herit protection from , and am amenable to her laws ; and while within the pale of her do- minion , am one of her community : and from ...
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... lands held in common , as the property of the inhabitants .』་ " Hence also arose the form of Regal go- vernment , by which the direction of the whole community was vested in one man , who , by election and common consent , was to fill ...
... lands held in common , as the property of the inhabitants .』་ " Hence also arose the form of Regal go- vernment , by which the direction of the whole community was vested in one man , who , by election and common consent , was to fill ...
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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...