The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... the trout shall hide her spawn in their pave- ment , the otter shall dive through them.- While this proud edifice whereon we stand , concomitant still with the principles of its founders , and 38 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... the trout shall hide her spawn in their pave- ment , the otter shall dive through them.- While this proud edifice whereon we stand , concomitant still with the principles of its founders , and 38 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... ment , the victim of fruitless opposition to Nature's laws , and of fallacious policy : the owl shall whoop round its fragments , the goat browse the thistles rooted in its crevices . " LETTER VII . : In the evening we resumed our THE ...
... ment , the victim of fruitless opposition to Nature's laws , and of fallacious policy : the owl shall whoop round its fragments , the goat browse the thistles rooted in its crevices . " LETTER VII . : In the evening we resumed our THE ...
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... ment and slept till day - break ; and then awoke in a feverish glow , a feeling , as of having slept for ages ; and I threw up the window , in hopes the fresh air of morning would dis- sipate this excitement of frame . I had stood ...
... ment and slept till day - break ; and then awoke in a feverish glow , a feeling , as of having slept for ages ; and I threw up the window , in hopes the fresh air of morning would dis- sipate this excitement of frame . I had stood ...
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... ment from the labour of man , were left to Nature for only a few centuries , abandoned to the impulse her hand would give , it would bloom in wildness , in all the luxuriance of wood and water - fall , marsh and plain . The rivers no ...
... ment from the labour of man , were left to Nature for only a few centuries , abandoned to the impulse her hand would give , it would bloom in wildness , in all the luxuriance of wood and water - fall , marsh and plain . The rivers no ...
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... ment , any such mode of support to priesthood , any such public edificial worship , as that es- tablishment has assumed . The leading doc- trine , the very basis of that religion , is the abolition of hireling ministry : it is founded ...
... ment , any such mode of support to priesthood , any such public edificial worship , as that es- tablishment has assumed . The leading doc- trine , the very basis of that religion , is the abolition of hireling ministry : it is founded ...
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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...