The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... arisen solely from increasing anxiety on your ac- count . You have left home to accompany me amidst the scenes of civilized life , and I fear your guileless simplicity will be disappointed at the result : THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... arisen solely from increasing anxiety on your ac- count . You have left home to accompany me amidst the scenes of civilized life , and I fear your guileless simplicity will be disappointed at the result : THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... result : I am hacknied in European manners , to you they are comparatively new . You are going to plunge into the tide of so- ciety , which , like our Thames when full , pre- sents security to the eye of inexperience , which perceives ...
... result : I am hacknied in European manners , to you they are comparatively new . You are going to plunge into the tide of so- ciety , which , like our Thames when full , pre- sents security to the eye of inexperience , which perceives ...
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... resulting from immutabilities ; if any single check is outweighed , a variation takes place of course . Since the discoveries demonstrated by the telescope , among the other bodies parts of Nature as we are , some have been observed to ...
... resulting from immutabilities ; if any single check is outweighed , a variation takes place of course . Since the discoveries demonstrated by the telescope , among the other bodies parts of Nature as we are , some have been observed to ...
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... results may it not lead ? And this last fact should be a caution to us , not to construe natural phenomena upon the narrow footing of this , or that , being beneficial to this or that part of our planet , or to such and such of our race ...
... results may it not lead ? And this last fact should be a caution to us , not to construe natural phenomena upon the narrow footing of this , or that , being beneficial to this or that part of our planet , or to such and such of our race ...
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... resulting from immutabilities . It may sound paradoxical , that what is in itself unchangeable should consist in the sheer action of change ; and yet perhaps it is a position more difficult to define than to comprehend . While a man's ...
... resulting from immutabilities . It may sound paradoxical , that what is in itself unchangeable should consist in the sheer action of change ; and yet perhaps it is a position more difficult to define than to comprehend . While a man's ...
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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...