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... earth ? While traversing our woods , the thought of sinking through the 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 ...
... earth ? While traversing our woods , the thought of sinking through the 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 ...
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... earth stamping on the necks of prostrate fellow- men : you will , as your intellects expand with daily exercise , see the debasing fetters of su- perstition and slavery binding reason , the only attribute by which man is distinguished ...
... earth stamping on the necks of prostrate fellow- men : you will , as your intellects expand with daily exercise , see the debasing fetters of su- perstition and slavery binding reason , the only attribute by which man is distinguished ...
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... Earth's surface ; such surface must , and does , necessarily con- stitute a joint fund , a common stock , from whence every individual by the rights inse- parably annexed to his being , shall procure just so much food as shall suffice ...
... Earth's surface ; such surface must , and does , necessarily con- stitute a joint fund , a common stock , from whence every individual by the rights inse- parably annexed to his being , shall procure just so much food as shall suffice ...
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Henry Horne (jr). Earth's surface are unfertile , that is , do not bear as indigenous , any wholesome food , or will not bear such without recourse to artifice , to cultivation , and in many instances will not produce it then : and that ...
Henry Horne (jr). Earth's surface are unfertile , that is , do not bear as indigenous , any wholesome food , or will not bear such without recourse to artifice , to cultivation , and in many instances will not produce it then : and that ...
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... you have . " ) He con- tinues ; " You must know I am an inhabitant of the Earth , or rather was so , and should not wonder if this was our moon ; don't I look blue ? " - " Why , yes , rather 50 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... you have . " ) He con- tinues ; " You must know I am an inhabitant of the Earth , or rather was so , and should not wonder if this was our moon ; don't I look blue ? " - " Why , yes , rather 50 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...