The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... virtue and more vice , more freedom and more slavery , more riches and more poverty , more truth and more falsehood - in short , more opposite extremes in every shape , than on any spot of like magnitude in our globe . You are going to ...
... virtue and more vice , more freedom and more slavery , more riches and more poverty , more truth and more falsehood - in short , more opposite extremes in every shape , than on any spot of like magnitude in our globe . You are going to ...
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... virtue , honour , empty sounds without a meaning ? If so , how have I deceived myself , L , looking at me for a second or two , replied , with a benignant smile , “ No , that would be indeed a dreadful state of things , which every good ...
... virtue , honour , empty sounds without a meaning ? If so , how have I deceived myself , L , looking at me for a second or two , replied , with a benignant smile , “ No , that would be indeed a dreadful state of things , which every good ...
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... Virtue ; if in dissonance , Evil , or Vice . " It has been said this standard is false , or subject to variation , because men's consciences and notions of good and evil , are not every where the same ; and that therefore it will not ...
... Virtue ; if in dissonance , Evil , or Vice . " It has been said this standard is false , or subject to variation , because men's consciences and notions of good and evil , are not every where the same ; and that therefore it will not ...
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... virtue in one place , is not in another : it remains for us to see whether they are , or are not , abstract and ab- solute in their essence ; orto speak more plainly , that virtue is virtue , and vice is vice , in all places and at all ...
... virtue in one place , is not in another : it remains for us to see whether they are , or are not , abstract and ab- solute in their essence ; orto speak more plainly , that virtue is virtue , and vice is vice , in all places and at all ...
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... things which belong to man , as man , by virtue of his superior understanding and pre- rogative , as the master - piece of that part of the universe demonstrably known by him ; and to define 28 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... things which belong to man , as man , by virtue of his superior understanding and pre- rogative , as the master - piece of that part of the universe demonstrably known by him ; and to define 28 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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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...