The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... turning their heads to either side : these persons open wide their mouths for the cram of nonsensical garbage , and are crammed to the tongue accordingly : if your informants belong to that class , I pity them ; if they knew better , I ...
... turning their heads to either side : these persons open wide their mouths for the cram of nonsensical garbage , and are crammed to the tongue accordingly : if your informants belong to that class , I pity them ; if they knew better , I ...
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... Turning to L- - , I asked , if any thing extraordinary was going on ? " Oh , no , " he replied , " this is every day work here . " " Then , in the name of won- der , what does all this mean ? I am stupified with this incessant din ...
... Turning to L- - , I asked , if any thing extraordinary was going on ? " Oh , no , " he replied , " this is every day work here . " " Then , in the name of won- der , what does all this mean ? I am stupified with this incessant din ...
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... sounds , infinitely modified from peculiar organic struc- ture ; and by which he communicates the workings of his own sensorium , and in turn imbibes new impressions through his sense of hearing ; thus 26 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... sounds , infinitely modified from peculiar organic struc- ture ; and by which he communicates the workings of his own sensorium , and in turn imbibes new impressions through his sense of hearing ; thus 26 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
Page 34
... turns to , and is sharpened in others ; it loses its powers of discrimination , but acquires in- creased fertility of imagination ; is still affected by extrinsic incident : if the digestive organs are impeded , the owner fancies ...
... turns to , and is sharpened in others ; it loses its powers of discrimination , but acquires in- creased fertility of imagination ; is still affected by extrinsic incident : if the digestive organs are impeded , the owner fancies ...
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... turn succeeded here by his own offspring , a part of his own organic mat- ter , and therefore inheriting the same natural rights so appertaining to him ; he cannot by Natural Right acquire any control over any part of the reservoir of ...
... turn succeeded here by his own offspring , a part of his own organic mat- ter , and therefore inheriting the same natural rights so appertaining to him ; he cannot by Natural Right acquire any control over any part of the reservoir of ...
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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...