The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... am speak- ing , thousands of the sons of men are tra- versing this great city without the means of procuring food or clothing , the only absolute necessaries of man , suffering all the extremity of bodily THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 15.
... am speak- ing , thousands of the sons of men are tra- versing this great city without the means of procuring food or clothing , the only absolute necessaries of man , suffering all the extremity of bodily THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 15.
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... mean ? I am stupified with this incessant din : what is the object of the crowds who press around us ? surely they are agitated by some universal stimulus . " -- " They are so , " said L , " cannot you divine what that stimulus is ...
... mean ? I am stupified with this incessant din : what is the object of the crowds who press around us ? surely they are agitated by some universal stimulus . " -- " They are so , " said L , " cannot you divine what that stimulus is ...
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... means of a simple division of its components . Let us first separate it into two grand divisions " corporeal and mental plea- sure " let the first be again divided into two parts , that is , into pleasures strictly animal and ...
... means of a simple division of its components . Let us first separate it into two grand divisions " corporeal and mental plea- sure " let the first be again divided into two parts , that is , into pleasures strictly animal and ...
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... mean to say , no man can enjoy mental pleasure , ease and serenity of soul , in the lofty degree for which Nature has framed him , unless he is mo- rally certain of being able to satisfy his animal wants , at all seasonable times . The ...
... mean to say , no man can enjoy mental pleasure , ease and serenity of soul , in the lofty degree for which Nature has framed him , unless he is mo- rally certain of being able to satisfy his animal wants , at all seasonable times . The ...
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... mean to ask is , in effect , this ; ' Does know- ledge constitute happiness ? ' are they synony- mous ? Now we come to the second grand division , to the pleasure of the soul . And I say , at once , that if we are allowed to define ...
... mean to ask is , in effect , this ; ' Does know- ledge constitute happiness ? ' are they synony- mous ? Now we come to the second grand division , to the pleasure of the soul . And I say , at once , that if we are allowed to define ...
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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...