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... eye of inexperience , which perceives not the shoals beneath the 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 ...
... eye of inexperience , which perceives not the shoals beneath the 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 ...
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... eyes , and prepare to judge for yourself . Fear not your mind will not fail to discern truth , when the mists of ignorance which now envelope your ideas , are dispersed by the beams of knowledge . We will together range through the ...
... eyes , and prepare to judge for yourself . Fear not your mind will not fail to discern truth , when the mists of ignorance which now envelope your ideas , are dispersed by the beams of knowledge . We will together range through the ...
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... eye , he is an extraordinary being . On the evening of our arrival here , after bidding me kindly welcome to what he was pleased to call his poor sample of English hospitality , he addressed me as follows : " From the specimens you have ...
... eye , he is an extraordinary being . On the evening of our arrival here , after bidding me kindly welcome to what he was pleased to call his poor sample of English hospitality , he addressed me as follows : " From the specimens you have ...
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... eyes ached from gazing upwards , with a pain- ful throb ; my ears rang with the crash of ruins , and amidst the din I awoke . The day was far advanced , the sun shone in full lustre into the apartment , and I rose and joined L , who ...
... eyes ached from gazing upwards , with a pain- ful throb ; my ears rang with the crash of ruins , and amidst the din I awoke . The day was far advanced , the sun shone in full lustre into the apartment , and I rose and joined L , who ...
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... eyes too soon shed tears , but they are as soon dried by the hand of kindness , soon smile brighter from their moisture : as the flowers renew their freshness from the dews of night . But this fair dawn is of short duration ; full ...
... eyes too soon shed tears , but they are as soon dried by the hand of kindness , soon smile brighter from their moisture : as the flowers renew their freshness from the dews of night . But this fair dawn is of short duration ; full ...
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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...