The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... possible . To be sure , the pretty dear girls were a little nervous at first , ' the tigers did leer so ! ' but , like other quadrille - dancers , they soon got over first impressions ; and upon the whole , had a pleasant sort of water ...
... possible . To be sure , the pretty dear girls were a little nervous at first , ' the tigers did leer so ! ' but , like other quadrille - dancers , they soon got over first impressions ; and upon the whole , had a pleasant sort of water ...
Page 56
... possible ; I engross all learning , all possibility : " and thus , she sticks fast in the mire ploughed up by her own corrosive feet . While meek - eyed Science , rising in silent dignity , diffident yet steady , advances beaming with ...
... possible ; I engross all learning , all possibility : " and thus , she sticks fast in the mire ploughed up by her own corrosive feet . While meek - eyed Science , rising in silent dignity , diffident yet steady , advances beaming with ...
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... possible that I could survive the change ) I should place such to the account of Nature's works , as part of herself . Nor do I conceive such to be im- possible ; Nature is an assemblage of counter- balancing powers , of mutabilities ...
... possible that I could survive the change ) I should place such to the account of Nature's works , as part of herself . Nor do I conceive such to be im- possible ; Nature is an assemblage of counter- balancing powers , of mutabilities ...
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... possible that the immense assemblage of bodies subject to ccun- teracting powers , ( and immense beyond all calculation , even in our present confined state of observation , we know them to be , ) at length becomes bounded by some new ...
... possible that the immense assemblage of bodies subject to ccun- teracting powers , ( and immense beyond all calculation , even in our present confined state of observation , we know them to be , ) at length becomes bounded by some new ...
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... possible . They therefore taxed imagination in the invention of luxuries , of artificial wants , compound desires , and amusements , by ministering to which they might keep the heads and hands of their de- pendants in incessant toil ...
... possible . They therefore taxed imagination in the invention of luxuries , of artificial wants , compound desires , and amusements , by ministering to which they might keep the heads and hands of their de- pendants in incessant toil ...
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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...