The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... observation , I mean cultivation , he could most easily raise such food ; and if locally necessary , also such coverings from the inclemency of the elements . And , lastly , I submit as a consequent drawn from these precedents , that as ...
... observation , I mean cultivation , he could most easily raise such food ; and if locally necessary , also such coverings from the inclemency of the elements . And , lastly , I submit as a consequent drawn from these precedents , that as ...
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... observation , we believe them at once , as effects , though even then we are at liberty to question their cause , unless such cause has been since evinced by irrefragable proof . Thus , if it was asserted the sun rose on any given day ...
... observation , we believe them at once , as effects , though even then we are at liberty to question their cause , unless such cause has been since evinced by irrefragable proof . Thus , if it was asserted the sun rose on any given day ...
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... observing by the way , that the men of your tribe ask of our missionaries a rude question or two ; such as , " If God was angry with the Father , why was he with the Child ? And how could he , All - powerful , All- knowing , allow ...
... observing by the way , that the men of your tribe ask of our missionaries a rude question or two ; such as , " If God was angry with the Father , why was he with the Child ? And how could he , All - powerful , All- knowing , allow ...
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... observation , we know them to be , ) at length becomes bounded by some new power at present unknown , generated from their own multitudes of action and re - action ? Some assert the universe has existed in some shape from all eternity ...
... observation , we know them to be , ) at length becomes bounded by some new power at present unknown , generated from their own multitudes of action and re - action ? Some assert the universe has existed in some shape from all eternity ...
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... do we inherit it ? But it is not so ; whatever is , is useful and right ; nothing is given in vain And they add , ' We have received the gift of a truth which reason could never attain ; but observe THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 75.
... do we inherit it ? But it is not so ; whatever is , is useful and right ; nothing is given in vain And they add , ' We have received the gift of a truth which reason could never attain ; but observe THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 75.
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Page 221 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
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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...