The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... surface to a fathomless depth had never occurred to me : and if my canoe upset , confidence in swimming enabled me to pass its greatest width . But now , I fancied the wind which bore us along sounded as a breath in- haled by the Spirit ...
... surface to a fathomless depth had never occurred to me : and if my canoe upset , confidence in swimming enabled me to pass its greatest width . But now , I fancied the wind which bore us along sounded as a breath in- haled by the Spirit ...
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... surface . You are going to visit that great city , who is drunk with her own abominations ; where exist more virtue and more vice , more freedom and more slavery , more riches and more poverty , more truth and more falsehood - in short ...
... surface . You are going to visit that great city , who is drunk with her own abominations ; where exist more virtue and more vice , more freedom and more slavery , more riches and more poverty , more truth and more falsehood - in short ...
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... surface , he would ap- pear a man of common - place character ; to those who see more than meets the eye , he is an extraordinary being . On the evening of our arrival here , after bidding me kindly welcome to what he was pleased to ...
... surface , he would ap- pear a man of common - place character ; to those who see more than meets the eye , he is an extraordinary being . On the evening of our arrival here , after bidding me kindly welcome to what he was pleased to ...
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... surface ; others looking anxiously straight forward , as if trying hard to catch a glimpse of some object invisible to the rest ; some with mouths close pressed , as if biting secret information ; some whistling or humming ; some ...
... surface ; others looking anxiously straight forward , as if trying hard to catch a glimpse of some object invisible to the rest ; some with mouths close pressed , as if biting secret information ; some whistling or humming ; some ...
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... surface innu- merable vessels ; and its banks lined with quays and buildings ; many of the latter throwing up columns of smoke . " Well , " said L-- , " what think you , is not this an astonishing scene ? " — “ I know not what to think ...
... surface innu- merable vessels ; and its banks lined with quays and buildings ; many of the latter throwing up columns of smoke . " Well , " said L-- , " what think you , is not this an astonishing scene ? " — “ I know not what to think ...
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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...