The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... my observations and records of passing events among the people I am going to visit : I think thou wilt be in- terested in my narration . Farewell . LETTER II . England . OUR journey is ended . 4 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... my observations and records of passing events among the people I am going to visit : I think thou wilt be in- terested in my narration . Farewell . LETTER II . England . OUR journey is ended . 4 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... pass its greatest width . But now , I fancied the wind which bore us along sounded as a breath in- haled by the Spirit of the deep , to draw us : within his jaws . Our companions , however , THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 5.
... pass its greatest width . But now , I fancied the wind which bore us along sounded as a breath in- haled by the Spirit of the deep , to draw us : within his jaws . Our companions , however , THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 5.
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... passing events , which I will endeavour to delineate with fidelity . " Here our conversation ended : I have hastened to transmit it entire to thee . LETTER III . London . I SHALL address you no 10 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... passing events , which I will endeavour to delineate with fidelity . " Here our conversation ended : I have hastened to transmit it entire to thee . LETTER III . London . I SHALL address you no 10 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... passing , shabby and splendid , full and empty ; drawn by horses , famished or pampered ; some full of heavy packages , or vessels of wood bound with iron . In the front part of many of these latter , a large dog was placed , who with ...
... passing , shabby and splendid , full and empty ; drawn by horses , famished or pampered ; some full of heavy packages , or vessels of wood bound with iron . In the front part of many of these latter , a large dog was placed , who with ...
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... passing through the sieve of his mind , the enquiry whether this or that acquirement be congenial with his inherent feelings , so , by the exercise of this same reasoning faculty , he is enabled to adopt or reject with sufficient ...
... passing through the sieve of his mind , the enquiry whether this or that acquirement be congenial with his inherent feelings , so , by the exercise of this same reasoning faculty , he is enabled to adopt or reject with sufficient ...
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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...