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... continued he , " observed my late difference of manner ; I fear it has caused pain to your sensitive heart : forgive me , my friend , if I have seemed estranged and altered ; this lovely sunset has recalled me to myself : my apparent ...
... continued he , " observed my late difference of manner ; I fear it has caused pain to your sensitive heart : forgive me , my friend , if I have seemed estranged and altered ; this lovely sunset has recalled me to myself : my apparent ...
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... continued , " this river , its waters restored to their pristine clearness , shall again reflect on its bosom the shadows of trees hanging over it in wild luxuriance ; again shall its banks , clothed with reeds and sedge , be peopled ...
... continued , " this river , its waters restored to their pristine clearness , shall again reflect on its bosom the shadows of trees hanging over it in wild luxuriance ; again shall its banks , clothed with reeds and sedge , be peopled ...
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... information ; but never mind , as your hero said , ' We must make shift without it . ' Come , you don't get on ; fill again , and make yourself at home . " LETTER IX . L Ꮮ continued- AND here , I THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 55.
... information ; but never mind , as your hero said , ' We must make shift without it . ' Come , you don't get on ; fill again , and make yourself at home . " LETTER IX . L Ꮮ continued- AND here , I THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 55.
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Henry Horne (jr). LETTER IX . L Ꮮ continued- AND here , I would point out with delight , with feelings of honest pride , the wide difference in the routes of Ignorance , attended by Cunning and Fanaticism ; and of Science , supported by ...
Henry Horne (jr). LETTER IX . L Ꮮ continued- AND here , I would point out with delight , with feelings of honest pride , the wide difference in the routes of Ignorance , attended by Cunning and Fanaticism ; and of Science , supported by ...
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... most abstruse and complicated : the formation of a flower is as wonderful as that of our own bodies : both are equally well suited to functional discharge . LETTER X. L - continued , It has been frequently 66 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... most abstruse and complicated : the formation of a flower is as wonderful as that of our own bodies : both are equally well suited to functional discharge . LETTER X. L - continued , It has been frequently 66 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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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 - Necker,'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...